A.earthen pot, pipkin, Ar.Ach.284 (troch.), Av.43, al., X.HG4.5.4, Antiph.70, Thphr. Char.10.5, etc.; “χύτρας ἴχνος ἀπὸ σποδοῦ ἀφάνιζε” Pythag. ap. Iamb. Protr.21.“λδ́; χύτραι δίωτοι” Pl.Hp.Ma.288d; “τοὐπίθημα τῆς χ. ἀφελών” Hegesipp.1.13; children were exposed in pots, “τὸ δ᾽ ἐσέφερε γραῦς ἐν χύτρᾳ τὸ παιδίον” Ar.Th.505; cf. χυτρίζω.
2. χύτραις ἱδρύειν set up, consecrate an altar or statue with pots of pulse, τὰς χ. αἷς τὸν θεὸν (sc. Πλοῦτον)“ ἱδρυσόμεθα” Id.Pl.1197, cf. Sch. ad loc.; “Ζηνὸς ἑρκείου χύτρας, μεθ᾽ ὧν ὁ βωμὸς . . ἱδρύθη” Id.Fr.245; τί δ᾽ ἄλλο γ᾽ ἢ ταύτην (sc. Εἰρήνην) χύτραις ἱδρυτέον; Answ. “χύτραισιν, ὥσπερ μεμφόμενον Ἑρμῄδιον;” Id.Pax923, cf. Sch.
4. prov., χύτραις λημᾶν to have swellings as big as pipkins in the corners of the eye (cf. λημᾶν κολοκύνταις), Luc.Ind.23, Diogenian.5.63, Hsch.
5. name given to black figs by Mariandyni, Pherecr.68.4.