With touchings, or with pretexts, or with blame.[1]
But [sc. note also the phrase] "bi-mouthed handles," the ears of the mixing-bowl, or those which have openings on both sides; or because these [handles] are on both sides of the mouth [of the jar]; or those which have some kind of animal faces on both sides. "Crown their [tops] and their bi-mouthed handles." That is crown the head of the bowls also.[2]
[Note] that Bagoas the Egyptian slew Okhos the Persian and ate his flesh, but the bones he made into handles of knives.[3]
And elsewhere: "handles of philosophy", [i.e.] arithmetic and geometry.[4]