A.case to keep the reeds or tongues of musical instruments, Lysipp.5: generally, casket, BGU824.9 (i A. D.), PLond.2.191.14 (ii A. D.): more freq. in form γλωσσό-κομον , τό, case, casket, Test.Epict.8.25, Apollod.Caryst.7, PTeb.414.21 (ii A. D.), PMag.Lond.122.55, etc.; = κιβωτός, chest(Ark), LXX 2 Ki.6.11 (v.l.); money-box, Ev.Jo.12.6, Plu. Galb.16; compartment in a water-organ, Hero Spir.1.42, cf. Aut.12.1; cage, Longin.44.5; coffin, prob. in AP11.3; rejected by Phryn.79:—also masc.
γλωσσο-κομεῖον , τό, (κομέω)
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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