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ἀρύβαλλος

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

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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