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κερα^μ-εύς , έως, ὁ,
A.potter, “ὡς ὅτε τις τροχὸν . . κεραμεὺς πειρήσεται” Il.18.601, cf. Hom.Epigr.14.1, etc.; οἱ κ., a guild at Thyatira, IGRom.4.1205: prov., “καὶ κεραμεὺς κεραμεῖ κοτέει” Hes.Op.25, cf. Arist.Rh.1381b16, EN1155a35; κεραμέως πλοῦτος and κεραμεὺς ἅνθρωπος, prov., of anything frail and uncertain, Diogenian.5.97, 98.
II. Κεραμεῖς , Att. Κεραμῆς , οἱ, name of an Attic deme, Ar. Ra.1093 (anap.), Pl.Prt.315d, etc.
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, Frogs, 1093
    • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1155a.35
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 25
    • Homer, Iliad, 18.601
    • Plato, Protagoras, 315d
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