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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

  • κατὰ πόλιν καὶ χώραν, οὗ ἂν ἐξετέθη τὸ πρόσταγμα, οὗ ἂν ἐξετέθη τὸ ἔκθεμα, χαρὰ καὶ εὐφροσύνη τοῖσ Ἰουδαίοισ, κώθων καὶ εὐφροσύνη. καὶ πολλοὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν περιετέμνοντο καὶ ἰουδάϊζον διὰ τὸν φόβον τῶν Ἰουδαίων. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 8:38)
  • τότε οἱ πρὶν ἐπονείδιστοι καὶ πλησίον τοῦ ᾅδου, μᾶλλον δ̓ ἐπ̓ αὐτῷ βεβηκότεσ, ἀντὶ πικροῦ καὶ δυσαιάκτου μόρου, κώθωνα σωτήριον συστησάμενοι, τὸν εἰσ πτῶσιν αὐτοῖσ καὶ τάφον ἡτοιμασμένον τόπον κλισίαισ κατεμέρισαν πλήρεισ χαρμονῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 6:31)
  • χρησμολόγῳ δ’ οὐδεὶσ ἐδίδου κώθωνα φαεινόν. (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, dactyls22)
  • ἀλλὰ τἀν τῇ μὲν αὐτῶν οὐκ ἄγαν θαυμάζομεν, ὡσ ὅτ’ ἐσ τὰσ ἱππαγωγοὺσ εἰσεπήδων ἀνδρικῶσ, πριάμενοι κώθωνασ, οἱ δὲ καὶ σκόροδα καὶ κρόμμυα· (Aristotle, Parabasis, antepirrheme4)
  • ἀσύμβολον κώθωνα μὴ παραλίμπανε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 14 3:4)
  • κώθων δ’ οὐ παραλειπτὸσ ἀσύμβολοσ, ἀλλὰ διωκτόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 14 4:1)
  • ’ τὸ δεῖπνον πρῶτον μὲν ἑκάστῳ χωρὶσ παρατιθέμενον καὶ πρὸσ ἕτερον κοινωνίαν οὐδεμίαν ἔχον εἶτα μᾶζαν μὲν ὅσην ἂν ἕκαστοσ ᾖ βουλόμενοσ, καὶ πιεῖν πάλιν ὅταν ᾖ θυμὸσ ἑκάστῳ κώθων παρακείμενόσ ἐστιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 191)
  • κώθων Λακωνικὸν ποτήριον, οὗ μνημονεύει Ξενοφῶν ἐν α Κύρου Παιδείασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 66 1:1)
  • κώθων Λακωνικόσ, ἔκπωμα ἐπιτηδειότατον εἰσ στρατείαν καὶ εὐφορώτατον ἐν γυλιῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 66 1:6)

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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