A.tin (never in Od.), Il.11.25, 23.503, SIG247i 3 (Delph., iv B.C.), etc.; ἐτήκετο κασσίτερος ὣς τέχνῃ ὕπ᾽ “αἰζηῶν” Hes.Th.862, cf. Il.18.474; Χεῦμα κασσιτέροιο a plating of tin, 23.561; “κ. πάνεφθος” Hes.Sc.208; κνημῖδας ἑανοῦ κ. Il.18.613; δύο καττιτέρω two plates of tin, IG22.204.23, cf. Hdt.3.115. (Elamite word, cf. Bab. kassi-tira: hence Skt. kastīram.）
κασσίτερος [ι^], Att. καττ- , ὁ,
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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