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κισσύβιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κισσύβιον κισσύβιου

Structure: κισσυβι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: kisso/s

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

  • καὶ γὰρ ὃ Θρηικίην μὲν ἀπέστυγε χανδὸν ἄμυστιν οἰνοποτεῖν, ὀλίγῳ δ’ ἥδετο κισσυβίῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 60 1:2)
  • "καὶ κισσυβίῳ τῶν μὲν ἐν ἄστει καὶ μετρίων οὐδεὶσ ἐχρῆτο, συβῶται δὲ καὶ νομεῖσ καὶ οἱ ἐν ἀγρῷ Πολύφημοσ μὲν τῷ κισσυβίῳ, θατέρῳ δὲ Εὔμαιοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 53 2:5)
  • καὶ γὰρ ὁ Θρηικίην μὲν ἀνήνατο χανδὸν ἄμυστιν ζωροποτεῖν, ὀλίγῳ δ’ ἥδετο κισσυβίῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 53 3:2)
  • Ἀσκληπιάδησ δ’ ὁ Μυρλεανὸσ ἐν τῷ περὶ τῆσ Νεστορίδοσ φησὶν ὅτι τῷ σκύφει καὶ τῷ κισσυβίῳ τῶν μὲν ἐν ἄστει καὶ μετρίων οὐδεὶσ ἐχρῆτο, συβῶται δὲ καὶ νομεῖσ καὶ οἱ ἐν ἀγρῷ, ὡσ ὁ Εὔμαιοσ πλησάμενοσ δῶκε σκύφοσ ᾧπερ ἔπινεν, οἴνου ἐνίπλειον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 99 5:5)

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

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