previous next
χοῦς (A), ὁ, also ἡ Anaxandr.41.13 (anap.), Nic.Th.103: (χέω):— a measure of capacity, = 12 κοτύλαι: nom. sg.
A.“χοῦς” Anaxandr.71, Alex.15.19, Men.Her.Fr.5, IG11(2).219A40 (Delos, iii B. C.); gen. “χοός” Ar.Th.347 (cod. R and Suid., fort χοῶς), Tab.Heracl.2.36, 57, IG22.1013.55; χοῦ (in signf. 11) ib.1252.11, Ath.Mitt.30.146 (Mysia); dat. “χοΐ” Anaxandr.41.13, D.Prooem.53, PFrankf.1.19, al. (iii B. C.) (also Dor. Tab.Heracl.1.103); χῷ (in signf. 11) Ath.Mitt.30.145; acc. “χοῦν” Dsc.5.7, Ael.NA16.12, IG22.1366.23, PHolm.16.10; written χον (in signf.11), SIG57.21 (Milet., v B. C.); “χόα” Choerob. in Theod.1.238H.; nom. pl. “χόες” Pl.Tht.173e, IG22.1672.200, Inscr.Délos 396 A 67 (iii B. C.), Gal.18(2).258; contr. “χοῦς” AP5.182 (Posidipp.); gen. pl. “χῶν” IG12(5).593 A9 (Ceos, v B. C.), “χοῶν” SIG647.27 (Stiris, ii B. C.); acc. “χοῦς” Tab.Heracl.1.103, PMich.Zen.94.4 (iii B. C.); “χόας” Hero *Mens.19, *Geom.23.63, Aristid.1.18J., Lib.Or.11.126, Gp.8.20.1, al. (χοας unaccented, SIG953.18 (Cnidus, ii B. C.)):—also nom. sg. χοεύς Hp.Epid.7.10, IG11(2).219 A 8 (Delos, iii B. C.); gen. “χοῶς” Ar.Pax537 (χοός ap. Suid.); “χοέως” Gal.12.932, S.E.M.9.320; dat. χοέϊ or “χοεῖ” Hp.Salubr.5, Morb.3.17 cod. θ, PHib.1.90.11 (iii B. C.), Choerob. in Theod. 1.238H.; acc. “χοᾶ” Ar.Eq.355, Ach.1202 (lyr.), Men.915 (contr. fr. χοέα, as correctly expld. by Hdn.Gr.2.13 and Choerob. l.c.; found at end of a verse in Ar.Eq.95,113, Ach.1133, Eub.80.4, Men. l.c.); “χοέα” Hp.Morb.3.17, Dsc.5.72, 73, Gp.2.6.42, Gal.12.931: nom. pl. “χοεῖς” IG11(2).237.3 (Delos, iii B. C.), Inscr.Délos 440 A 20, 62 (ii B. C.), Ostr.Bodl.i 343 (ii B. C.); written “χοιεῖς” PCair.Zen.160.3 (iii B. C.); acc. “χοᾶς” Ar.Ec.44, Th.746 (cod. R, cf. Suid.), Arist. HA627b4; later “χοέας” Ph.Bel.90.26; “χοεῖς” LXX 3 Ki.7.24 (38), Dsc. 5.7, 63, 68, PHolm.16.11, 17; dat. “χοεῦσιν” Arist. GC328a27; χόεσι or χοέσι (perh. formed like δρομέσι) Wilcken Chr.176.7 (i A. D.): the unaccented forms χοα, χοας, χοων, PCair.Zen.516.21, 16, 19 (iii B. C.), prob. belong to χοεύς: prov., of attempts to measure the immeasurable, “οἱ τῆς θαλάττης λεγόμενοι χόες” Pl.Tht.173d; “ὡσπερανεί τις ἐξαριθμεῖσθαι βούλοιτο τοὺς χόας τῆς θαλάττης” Aristid. l.c.
II. = συμβολή iv, ἡ πόλις διδοῖ . . χο̂ν (v. supr.) “τὸμ παλαιὸν ὁρτῆς ἑκάστης” SIG57.21 (Milet., v B. C.); “εἶναι αὐτοῖς ἀτέλειαν τοῦ χοῦ” IG22.1252.11; Argive acc. sg. “χῶν” Hegesand.31.
2. name of a society or club, “ἄρξαντα χοῦ” Ath.Mitt.30.146 (Mysia); Διῒ Ὑψίστῳ καὶ τῷ ib.145 (ibid.).
III. Χόες, οἱ, the Pitcher-feast, a name given to the second day of the Anthesteria, Call.Aet.1.1.2; gen. “Χοῶν” Eubulid.1, Timae.128; dat. “τοῖς Χουσί” Ar.Ach.1211, Ath.7.276c; acc. “τοὺς Χοᾶς” Ar.Ach.961; “τοὺς Χοᾶς ἄγειν” D.39.16, cf. Phanod.13; “τοὺς Χοῦς” IG3.1342.
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.

The National Endowment for the Humanities provided support for entering this text.

hide Dictionary Entry Lookup
Use this tool to search for dictionary entries in all lexica.
Search for in
How to enter text in Greek:
hide References (17 total)
  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (17):
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 1133
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 1202
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 1211
    • Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, 44
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 95
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 113
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 355
    • Aristophanes, Peace, 537
    • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 347
    • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 746
    • Demosthenes, Exordia, 53
    • Demosthenes, Against Boeotus 1, 16
    • Old Testament, 1 Kings, 7.24
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 173d
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 173e
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 961
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 16.12
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: