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ὄλπη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄλπη

Structure: ὀλπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a leathern oil-flask

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

  • "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)

Synonyms

  1. a leathern oil-flask

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

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