A.“κάλπιν” Od.7.20, “κάλπιδα” Pi.O.6.40:—pitcher (Thess. word for ὑδρία, acc. to AB1095), Od. and Pi.Il.cc., h.Cer. 107, E.Hipp.123 (lyr.), Ar.Ra.1339 (lyr.), Lys.358, etc.; a kind of cup, Philem.Gr. ap. Ath.11.468f; box for unguent, Antiph.106.2, Plb. 30.25.17; urn for drawing lots or collecting votes, Luc.Herm.40, 57; cinerary urn, Plu.Demetr.53: with play on the original sense, AP 12.74 (Mel.), 7.384 (Marc. Arg.); Panathenaic vase, Call.Fr.122; = κάλπη (B) 11, Gem.3.6, S.E.M.5.92 :—in Hsch. also κάλπη , ἡ (q.v.), and κάλπος , ὁ.
κάλπις , ιδος, ἡ, acc.
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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