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χύτλον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: χύτλον χύτλου

Structure: χυτλ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: xe/w

Sense

  1. anything that can be poured: water and oil for the bath.

Declension

Second 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

  • ἔνθ’ ἔτι νῦν, εὖτ’ ἄν σφιν ἐτήσια χύτλα χέωνται Κύζικον ἐνναίοντεσ Ιἄονεσ, ἔμπεδον αἰεὶ πανδήμοιο μύλησ πελάνουσ ἐπαλετρεύουσιν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 18:39)
  • οἱ δ’ ἀνὰ μὲν κραιπνῶσ λαῖφοσ σπάσαν, ἐκ δὲ βαλόντεσ πείσματ’ ἐν αἰγιαλῷ Σθενέλου τάφον ἀμφεπένοντο, χύτλα τέ οἱ χεύοντο, καὶ ἥγνισαν ἔντομα μήλων. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 15:23)
  • ἄνδιχα δ’ αὖ χύτλων νηοσσόῳ Ἀπόλλωνι βωμὸν δειμάμενοι μῆρ’ ἔφλεγον ἂν δὲ καὶ Ὀρφεὺσ θῆκε λύρην· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 15:24)

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

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