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κυψέλη , ἡ,
A.any hollow vessel: chest, box (whence Cypselus was called), Hdt.5.92.έ, Plu.2.164a, Paus.5.17.5; ἑξμέδιμνος κ., of a cornchest, Ar.Pax631; bee-hive, Plu.2.601c: metaph., κυψέλαι φρονημάτων boxes full of thoughts, Com.Adesp.703.
II. hollow of the ear, Poll.2.85, Hsch.: hence,
2. = κυψελίς 11, ear-wax, κυψέλην . . ἔχεις . . ἐν τοῖς ὠσίν, prov. of stupid men, Com.Adesp.620, cf. Eup. 213, Alex.Aphr.Pr.2.63.
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, Peace, 631
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.92
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5.17.5
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