Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • λιθάργυροσ δ’ ὄλπη παρῃωρεῖτο χρίματοσ πλέα τὸν Σπαρτιάτην γραπτὸν κύρβιν ἐν διπλῷ ξύλῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 74 1:5)
  • ὁ σκήπων καὶ ταῦτα τὰ βλαυτία, πότνια Κύπρι, ἄγκειται κυνικοῦ σκῦλ’ ἀπὸ Σωχάρεοσ, ὄλπη τε ῥυπόεσσα, πολυτρήτοιό τε πήρασ λείψανον, ἀρχαίησ πληθόμενον σοφίησ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 2931)
  • ὄλπη μοι καὶ πήρη ἐφόλκια, καὶ τὸ παλαιὸν ἔσθοσ, χὠ φθιμένουσ ναυστολέων ὀβολόσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 67 1:1)

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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