A.pond in which water-fowl were kept, Hdt.7.119.
b. contemptuously, of the Sea of Galilee, Porph.Chr.55.
3. pit, reservoir, Hdt.4.195; pit for storing wine, oil, or grain, X.An.4.2.22, Macho ap.Ath.13.580a; “ὁ λ. τῶν λεόντων” Thd. Da.6.7(8), al.: metaph., “ἀνήγαγέ με ἐκ λάκκου ταλαιπωρίας” LXX Ps. 39(40).2; καταβαίνειν εἰς λ. ib.27(28).1, al.:—written λάκος , PCair.Zen.176.276 (iii B. C.).
5. a kind of garment, “λ. χρωμάτινος” Peripl.M.Rubr.6.