Hellas Alive Dictionary

Ancient Greek-English Dictionary

ὄλπη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄλπη

Structure: ὀλπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

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.

"ὁ δὲ τύποσ ἦν τοῦ ἀγγείου πρότερον μὲν τοῖσ Παναθηναικοῖσ ἐοικώσ, ἡνίκα ἐκαλεῖτο πελίκη, ὕστερον δὲ ἔσχεν οἰνοχόησ σχῆμα, οἱοῖ́ εἰσιν οἱ ἐν τῇ ἑορτῇ παρατιθέμενοι, ὁποίουσ δή ποτε ὄλπασ ἐκάλουν, χρώμενοι πρὸσ τὴν τοῦ οἴνου ἔγχυσιν, καθάπερ Ιὤν ὁ Χῖοσ ἐν Εὐρυτίδαισ φησίν ἐκ ζαθέων πιθακνῶν ἀφύσσοντεσ ὄλπαισ οἶνον ὑπερφίαλον κελαρύζετε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 905)

a leathern oil-flask
- ληκύθιον (a small oil-flask)
- λήκυθος (oil flask, oil bottle)

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

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