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ληνός

ληνός, vat, trough

ληνός, Dor. λᾱνός Theoc. 7.25, IG 14.150.5 (Syracuse): ἡ:—
  • anything shaped like a tub or trough, Hp. Mochl. 38; esp.
      • 1 winevat in which the grapes are pressed, PCair.Zen. 300.15 (iii B.C.), Theoc. 7.25, 25.28, D.S. 3.63.
      • 2 trough, for watering cattle, watering-place for them, h.Merc. 104, LXX Ge. 30.38, 41.
      • 3 = κάρδοπος, kneading-trough, Men. 116.
      • 4 socket into which the mast fitted, = ἱστοπέδη, Asclep.Myrl. ap. Ath. 11.474f, Poll. 1.91.
      • 5 coffin, Pherecr. 5, CIG 1979, al. (Thessalonica), IG l.c.
      • 6 part of the brain, the meeting-point of the sinuses of the dura mater, still called torcular Herophili, Herophil. ap. Gal. 2.712, cf. UP 9.6.
      • 7 hollow of a chariot, Hsch. (pl.).
      • 8 in pl., the lower parts of the nose, Poll. 2.80.

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