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ἀρύβαλλος?

Second declension Noun; Transliteration: aryballos

Principal Part: ἀρύβαλλος

Sense

  1. a bag or purse
  2. a bucket shaped like a purse

Examples

  • ἀρύβαλλος ποτήριον κάτωθεν εὐρύτερον, ἄνω δὲ συνηγμένον, ὡς τὰ συσπαστὰ βαλάντια, ἃ καὶ αὐτὰ διὰ τὴν ὁμοιότητα ἀρυβάλλους τινὲς καλοῦσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 26 1:2)
  • οὐ πόρρω δέ ἐστι τοῦ ἀρυστίχου ὁ ἀρύβαλλος, ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀρύτειν καὶ βάλλειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 26 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. a bag or purse

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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