Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

βῖκος

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βῖκος

Sense

  1. a wine-jar

Examples

  • καὶ πάλιν φοινικίνου βῖκόσ τισ ὑπανεῴγνυτο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 533)
  • χόνδροσ μετὰ ταῦτ’ εἰσῆλθε, μύρον Αἰγύπτιον, φοινικίνου βῖκόσ τισ ὑπανεῴγνυτο, ἴτρια, τραγήμαθ’ ἧκε, πυραμοῦσ, ἄμησ, ᾠῶν ἑκατόμβη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 502)
  • βικὸσ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 291)

Synonyms

  1. a wine-jar

Related

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

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