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λεπαστή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λεπαστή

Structure: λεπαστ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from lepa/s

Sense

  1. a limpet-shaped drinking-cup

Declension

First 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

  • φήσεισ ἐπειδὰν ἐκπίῃσ οἴνου νέου λεπαστήν. (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 15)
  • αὐλεῖν δ’ αὐτοῖσ Ἀντιγενείδαν, ἀργᾶν δ’ ᾄδειν καὶ κιθαρίζειν Κηφισόδοτον τὸν Ἀχαρνῆθεν μέλπειν δ’ ᾠδαῖσ τοτὲ μὲν Σπάρτην τὴν εὐρύχορον, τοτὲ δ’ αὖ Θήβασ τὰσ ἑπταπύλουσ, τὰσ ἁρμονίασ μεταβάλλοντασ, φερνάσ τε λαβεῖν δύο μὲν ξανθῶν ἵππων ἀγέλασ αἰγῶν τ’ ἀγέλην χρυσοῦν τε σάκοσ φιάλην τε λεπαστὴν χιόνοσ τε πρόχουν κέρχνων τε χύτραν βολβῶν τε σιρὸν δωδεκάπηχυν καὶ πουλυπόδων ἑκατόμβην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 7 1:3)
  • λεπαστή. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 701)
  • τί δῆτ’ ἂν εἰ πίοισ οἴνου κύλικα λεπαστήν; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 70 1:3)
  • ἦν δὲ τὸ πρᾶγμ’ ἑορτή, περιέφερε δὲ κύκλῳ λεπαστὴν ἡμῖν ταχὺ προσφέρων παῖσ οἰνοχόοσ σφόδρα κυανοβενθῆ, τὸ βάθοσ παρίστησιν ὁ κωμικὸσ τοῦ ποτηρίου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 70 1:6)
  • τὴν δὲ γραῦν τὴν ἀσθενοῦσαν πάνυ πάλαι, τὴν βρυτικήν, ῥίζιον τρίψασ τι μικρὸν δελεάσασ τε γεννικῇ τὸ μέγεθοσ κοίλῃ λεπαστῇ, τοῦτ’ ἐποίησεν ἐκπιεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 70 2:2)
  • σπόγγοσ, λεκάνη, πτερόν, λεπαστὴ πάνυ πυκνή, ἣν ἐκπιοῦσ1’ ἄκρατον Ἀγαθοῦ Δαίμονοσ τέττιξ κελαδεῖ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 70 3:1)
  • λεπαστὴ μάλα συχνή, ἣν ἐκπιοῦσ1’ ἄκρατον Ἀγαθοῦ Δαίμονοσ περίστατον βοῶσα τὴν κώμην ποεῖ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 70 5:3)

Synonyms

  1. a limpet-shaped drinking-cup

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

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