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κρα-τήρ , Ion.and Ep. κρητήρ , ῆρος, ὁ, (κεράννυμι)
A.mixing vessel, esp. bowl, in which wine was mixed with water, κ. ἀργύρεος, χρύσεος, Il.23.741,219; [“κ.] ἀργύρεος ἔστιν ἅπας, χρυσῷ δ᾽ ἐπὶ χείλεα κεκράανται” Od.4.615; “οἶνον δ᾽ ἐκ κρητῆρος ἀφυσσόμενοι δεπάεσσιν ἔκχεον” Il.3.295, cf. 247; κρητῆρι δὲ οἶνον μίσγον ib.269; “κρητῆρα κερασσάμενος” Od.7.179, 13.50; “οἶνον ἔμισγον ἐνὶ κρητῆρσι καὶ ὕδωρ” 1.110, cf.Sapph.51, Alc. 45, S.OC159 (lyr.), Ar.Ec.841; κρατῆρα κεράσαι Orac. ap. D.21.53, cf. Th.6.32; “κρητῆρα καὶ ὑποκρητήριον” SIG2 (Sigeum, vi B.C.); πίνοντες κρητῆρας drinking bowls of wine, Il.8.232; κρητῆρα στήσασθαι ἐλεύθερον to set up a bowl of wine to be drunk in honour of the deliverance 6.528, cf. Od.2.431; κρητῆρα ἐπιστέψασθαι ποτοῖο, v. ἐπιστέφω; κρατῆρος μέρος μετασχεῖν A.Ch.291; “σπονδὴ τρίτου κρατῆρος” S.Fr. 425.
2. metaph., κ. ἀοιδᾶν, of the messenger who bears an ode, Pi.O.6.91; κ. κακῶν, of a sycophant, Ar.Ach.937 (lyr.); “τοσόνδε κρατῆρ᾽ ἐν δόμοις κακων πλήσας . . ἐκπίνει” A.Ag.1397; αἵματος κρατῆρα πολιτικοῦ στῆσαι, of civil war, D.H.7.44.
3. a constellation, the Cup, Ptol.Tetr.27.
II. any cup-shaped hollow, basin in a rock, S. OC1593, cf. Pl.Phd. 111d.
2. mouth of a volcano, crater, Arist. Mu.400a33 (pl.), Plb.34.11.12 (pl.), Luc.Trag.23.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (22):
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1397
    • Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, 291
    • Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, 841
    • Demosthenes, Against Midias, 53
    • Homer, Iliad, 23.741
    • Homer, Iliad, 6.528
    • Homer, Iliad, 8.232
    • Homer, Odyssey, 13.50
    • Homer, Odyssey, 1.110
    • Homer, Odyssey, 2.431
    • Homer, Odyssey, 4.615
    • Plato, Phaedo, 111d
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 159
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1593
    • Thucydides, Histories, 6.32
    • Homer, Iliad, 3.295
    • Homer, Odyssey, 7.179
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 425
    • Polybius, Histories, 34.11.12
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 937
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 7.44
    • Claudius Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos, 27
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