Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κώθων

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κώθων κώθωνος

Structure: κωθων (Stem)

Sense

  1. a Laconian drinking-vessel

Declension

Third 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

  • ἀλλ’ ἄγε σὺν κώθωνι θοῆσ διὰ σέλματα νηὸσ φοίτα καὶ κοίλων πώματ’ ἄφελκε κάδων, ἄγρει δ’ οἶνον ἐρυθρὸν ἀπὸ τρυγόσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 66 3:1)
  • ὣσ ποτ’ ἐκήλησεν Καλλίστρατοσ υἱᾶσ Ἀχαιῶν, κέρμα φίλον διαδοὺσ ὅτε συμμαχίαν ἐρέεινεν οἰο͂ν δ’ οὐ κήλησε δέμασ λεπτὸν Ῥαδάμανθυν Λύσανδρον κώθωνι, πρὶν αὐτῷ δῶκε λεπαστήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 70 3:3)
  • "τί νῦν ἐμποδών ἐστιν ἡμῖν βουλομένοισ κώθωνι χρῆσθαι καὶ σχολάζειν μετ’ ἀλλήλων, εἰ ταῦτα ἔχομεν ἤδη καὶ πάρεστιν ἀπραγμόνωσ ἐφ’ ἃ δι’ αἵματοσ καὶ πόνων μεγάλων καὶ κινδύνων μέλλομεν ἀφίξεσθαι, πολλὰ καὶ δράσαντεσ ἑτέρουσ κακὰ καὶ παθόντεσ; (Plutarch, chapter 14 7:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἄγε, σὺν κώθωνι θοῆσ διὰ σέλματα νηὸσ φοίτα καὶ κοΐλων πώματ’ ἄφελκε κάδων, ἄγρει δ’ οἶνον ἐρυθρὸν ἀπὸ τρυγόσ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 16)
  • Ἀρχομένου δ’ ἦροσ ὁ μὲν Σκιπίων ἐπεχείρει τῇ τε Βύρσῃ καὶ τῶν λιμένων τῷ καλουμένῳ Κώθωνι, ὁ δὲ Ἀσδρούβασ νυκτὸσ ἐνεπίμπρη τὸ μέροσ τοῦ Κώθωνοσ τὸ τετράγωνον. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 19 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a Laconian drinking-vessel

Related

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

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