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λήκυ^θος (Dor. λάκυθος [α_] IG42(1).123.130 (Epid., iv B.C.)), ἡ,
A.oil-flask, “δῶκεν δὲ χρυσέῃ ἐν ληκύθῳ ὑγρὸν ἔλαιον” Od.6.79, cf. 215, Hp. Morb.4.51, Ph.Bel.102.41, etc.; casket for unguents, cosmetics, etc., S.Fr.130; “αἱ δὲ λήκυθοι μύρου γέμουσι” Ar.Pl.810, cf. Fr.207; buried or burnt with the dead, Id.Ec.538, 996, 1032, cf. IG14.865, CIG 8346k.
2. in pl., rhetorical bombast, Cic.Att.1.14.3, Plin.Ep.1.2.4.
II. projecting cartilage on the gullet, Adam's apple, = βρόχθος, Clearch.72.
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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