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κύτος [υ^], εος, τό, κύω)
A.hollow, κύκλου, of a shield, A.Th.495; “ἀσπίδοςE.Fr.185; “θώρηκοςAr.Pax1224; “περίπλευρον κ.E.El.473 (lyr.); “λέβητοςId.Cyc.399; “τρίποδοςId.Supp.1202; “κύλικοςPl.Com.189; “λοπάδοςXenarch.1.10; hold of a ship, Plb.16.3.4.
2. vessel, jar, A.Ag.322, 816, S.El.1142, etc.; πλεκτὸν κ. basket, E.Ion37; “κοιλοσώματον κ.Antiph.52.2.
3. of any hollow container, “τὸ τῆς κεφαλῆς κ.Pl.Ti.45a; τὸ ὄπισθεν κ. occiput, Arist.PA56b26; τοῦ θώρακος τὸ κ., i.e. the chest, Pl.Ti.69e; “ποδῶν κ.Achae.4.4 (leg. πλευρῶν)“; τὸ ἄνω κ.Arist.GA742b14 (also of plants, = αἱ ῥίζαι, 741b35, al.); τὸ λοιπὸν ἅπαν κ., of the uterus, Gal.UP14.14, cf. Sor.1.9; of the fourth stomach of the ox, Phlp.in AP0.417.14; τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς κ., i.e. the body, Pl.Ti.44a: hence, abs., body, “ἀνδρείῳ κύτειS.Tr.12; trunk, “διὰ παντὸς τοῦ κ.Pl.Ti.74a; “τὸ ἀπ᾽ αὐχένος μέχρι αἰδοίων κ.Arist.HA 491a29, cf. PA686b14; “τὸ ὅλον κ. τοῦ σώματοςD.S.1.35, cf. Archig. ap.Gal.13.262: metaph., of the πόλις, Pl.Lg.964e; “τὸ σύμπαν τῆς πόλεως κ. τείχεσιν ἠσφάλισταιPlb.5.59.8.
4. κ. ἀστέριον starry vault of heaven, Vett.Val.172.32.
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