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κάδος [α^], ὁ,
A.jar or vessel for water or wine, Anacr.17, Archil.4, Hdt.3.20, S.Fr.534.3 (anap.), Ar.Ach.549, etc.; “κ. ἀντλητικός” CPR 232.12 (ii A.D.); said to be Ion. for κεράμιον, Clitarch.Gloss. ap. Ath. 11.473b.
2. a liquid measure,= ἀμφορεύς, Philoch.155a; “ἐλαίου” LXX 2 Ch.2.10(9) (cod. A), cj. in Simon.155.4 (Hermes64.274); “πίνει τετραχόοισι κάδοις” Hedyl. ap. Ath.l.c.; later, half an ἀμφ., Script. Metrol.1.257, 2.144 Hultsch.
II. = καδίσκος 11, Ar.Av.1032.
III. funerary urn, Jahresh.8.154.—The metre usu. requires κάδος, never κάδδος which is written in Them.in Ph.268.2, al.; cf. κάδδιχος.
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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    • Aristophanes, Birds, 1032
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.20
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 534.3
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