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Headword:
Λάκκος
Adler number: lambda,60
Translated headword: pit, reservoir, tank
Vetting Status: low
Translation: The Athenians and the other Greeks dig holes under ground, making them wide with four rounded corners, plaster the sides, and put wine and oil in them; and these they called lakkoi.
Greek Original:Λάκκος: Ἀθηναῖοι καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι τῶν Ἑλλήνων ὀρύγματα ὑπὸ τὴν γῆν ποιοῦντες εὐρύχωρα καὶ στρογγύλα καὶ τετράγωνα καὶ ταῦτα κονιῶντες οἶνον ὑποδέχονται καὶ ἔλαιον εἰς αὐτά: καὶ ταῦτα λάκκους ἐκάλουν.
Notes:
Also in
Photius.
The word
lakkos was applied to various kinds of holes in the ground: LSJ entry at web address 1; for the kind glossed here see e.g.
Xenophon,
Anabasis 4.2.22. For a metaphorical use of the word see
lambda 61.
For lakkos-compounds see
lambda 58,
lambda 59.
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; food; science and technology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 30 December 2001@22:15:31.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented note; cosmetics) on 1 January 2002@05:29:12.
David Whitehead (another note; another keyword; tweaks) on 27 March 2011@07:27:45.
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