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πίθος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πίθος

Sense

  1. a wine-jar, earthenware

Examples

  • πίθοσ γὰρ τετρημένοσ ἐστὶν ἀλλότριοσ οἶκοσ, καὶ φρέαρ στενὸν ἀλλότριον. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 23:27)
  • τῷ γὰρ ἠθμῷ ἀντλεῖν τοῦτ’ ἔστιν, καὶ ὁ λεγόμενοσ τετρημένοσ πίθοσ. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 33:4)
  • ὡσ δ’ ἅπαξ τὸ πρῶτον ἄκουσ’ ἐψόφησεν ἄμπελοσ καὶ πίθοσ πληγεὶσ ὑπ’ ὀργῆσ ἀντελάκτισεν πίθῳ, οὐκέτ’ ἦν οὐδεὶσ ὁ παύσων, ἥδε δ’ ἠφανίζετο. (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, epirrheme5)
  • καὶ εἰ μὲν σταθμήσονταί τινεσ αὐτῇ, εὖ ἂν ἔχοι καὶ εἰσ δέον ἡμῖν γέγραπται, εἰ δὲ μή, κεκύλισται ὁ πίθοσ ἐν Κρανείῳ. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 633)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ εἴ τισ γεύσαιτο ἀρυσάμενοσ ὀλίγον ὅσον αὐτοῦ, εἴσεσθαι αὐτίκα ὁποῖοσ ἅπασ ὁ πίθοσ ἐστίν, ἀκόλουθον καὶ τοῦτο, καὶ οὐδὲν ἂν ἔγωγέ τι ἀντεῖ πον. (Lucian, 120:9)

Synonyms

  1. a wine-jar

Related

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

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