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κισσύβιον?

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration: kissybion

Principal Part: κισσύβιον κισσύβιου

Structure: κισσυβι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: κισσός

Sense

  1. a rustic drinking-cup, ivy-wreath

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οἶδα γὰρ ὡς χρὴ ἐγχέαι τὸ γάλα καὶ ἀναδοῦναι τὸ κισσύβιον. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 7:4)
  • καὶ αὐτὸς μὲν ἔκεισο μεθύων ἤδη, κισσύβιον ἔχων ἐν τῇ χειρί, βινητιῶν Πολύφημος, νεανίας δὲ ὑπόμισθος ὀρθὸν ἔχων τὸν μοχλὸν εὖ μάλα ἠκονημένον ἐπὶ σὲ Ὀδυσσεύς τις ἐπῄει ὡς ἐκκόψων τὸν ὀφθαλμόν κἀκείνου μὲν ἅμαρτε, παραὶ δέ οἱ ἐτράπετ ἔγχος, αἰχμὴ δ ἐξεσύθη ^ παρὰ νείατον ἀνθερεῶνα. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 24:6)
  • ἐν τούτοις ἀγνοεῖν ἐοίκεν ὁ Χαμαιλέων ὅτι οὔκ ἐστι μικρὸν τὸ παρ Ὁμήρῳ διδόμενον τῷ Κύκλωπι ὑπ Ὀδυσσέως κισσύβιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 4 3:4)
  • κισσύβιον τὸ μόνωτον ποτήριον Φιλήμων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 531)
  • τὸ γὰρ κισσύβιον, φησί, λέγεται ἐπὶ συνόδου ἀγροικικῆς, ἔνθα προσήκει μάλιστα τὸ ξύλινον ποτήριον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 53 1:2)

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

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