Sense

1. a small oil-flask

Examples

• σὺ δέ, ὦ κακέ, οὐ Ληκυθίων οὑμὸς δραπέτης τυγχάνεις οὐ μὲν οὖν ἄλλος. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 32:1)
• καὶ Ληκυθίων φιλοσοφεῖ. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 32:4)
• καὶ μὴν μὰ τὸν Δί οὐ κατ ἔπος γέ σου κνίσω τὸ ῥῆμ ἕκαστον, ἀλλὰ σὺν τοῖσιν θεοῖς ἀπὸ ληκυθίου σου τοὺς προλόγους διαφθερῶ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 1:37)
• ἀπὸ ληκυθίου σὺ τοὺς ἐμούς· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 1:38)
• ποιεῖς γὰρ οὕτως ὥστ ἐναρμόττειν ἅπαν, καὶ κῳδάριον καὶ ληκύθιον καὶ θύλακον, ἐν τοῖς ἰαμβείοισι. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 1:40)
• Αἴγυπτος, ὡς ὁ πλεῖστος ἔσπαρται λόγος, ξὺν παισὶ πεντήκοντα ναυτίλῳ πλάτῃ Ἄργος κατασχών - ληκύθιον ἀπώλεσεν. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 2:1)
• τουτὶ τί ἦν τὸ ληκύθιον· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 2:2)
• Διόνυσος, ὃς θύρσοισι καὶ νεβρῶν δοραῖς καθαπτὸς ἐν πεύκαισι Παρνασσὸν κάτα πηδᾷ χορεύων - ληκύθιον ἀπώλεσεν. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 2:5)
• ἢ γὰρ πεφυκὼς ἐσθλὸς οὐκ ἔχει βίον, ἢ δυσγενὴς ὤν - ληκύθιον ἀπώλεσεν. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 2:10)

Similar forms

• ληκύθιον (14)
• Ληκυθίων (3)
• ληκυθίου (2)
• Ληκυθίωνα (1)
• ληκυθίζειν (1)
• ληκυθισμοὺς? (1)

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