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ἀμφορ-εύς , έως, ὁ: acc.
A.“ἀμφορέα” Ar.Fr.299: dual “ἀμφορῆ” Telecl.2 D.: pl. “ἀμφορῆς” Ar.Nu.1203:—jar with narrow neck (“στενόστομον τὸ τεῦχος” Id.Fr. 108), Hdt.4.163, Ar.Nu.1203, etc.; used for various purposes, esp. for keeping wine in, Pl.807, Fr.299; or milk, E.Cyc.327; for pickles, X. An.5.4.28.
2. ornament in shape of vase, “ὅρμος -έων” IG11(2).161B 38 (Delos, iii B.C.), cf. SIG2588.199 (ib., ii B.C.).
II. liquid measure, = μετρητής (Philyll.7, Moer.45, etc.), 1 1/2 Roman amphorae or nearly 9 gallons, Hdt.1.51, IG3.38, D.43.8, etc. (Shortened form of ἀμφιφορεύς, q.v., from having two handles.）
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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