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ἀγγεῖον

aggeion · τό

vessel, jars, vases

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Where it lives

De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte 1 · 5.44/10k
Lamentationes 1 · 4.29/10k
De Insomniis 1 · 4.19/10k
Jeremias 8 · 2.89/10k
Fragments 1 · 2.51/10k
Judith 2 · 2.28/10k
Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
Categories 2 · 1.99/10k
De Respiratione 1 · 1.65/10k
Regnorum I 3 · 1.62/10k
Lysis 1 · 1.44/10k
Statesman 2 · 1.18/10k

Densest 12 of 36 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἀγγεῖον · angeion — LSJ

vessel, jars, vases, mortar, tubs, vessels, pails, buckets, sacks, box

vessel for holding liquid or dry substances (τοῦτο . . ξηροῖς καὶ ὑγροῖς . . ἐργασθέν, ἀγγεῖον ὃ δὴ μιᾷ κλήσει προσφθεγγόμεθα Pl. Plt. 287e); of metal, ἀργύρεα ἀ. silver jars or vases for water, Hdt. 1.188; ἀργυρᾶ καὶ χαλκᾶ ἀ. Plu. QConv. 2.695b; ἐν ἀ. χαλκῷ mortar, Thphr. Lap. 60; ξύλινα ἀ. tubs, Hdt. 4.2; vessels for holding money, in a treasury, Id. 2.121.βʹ; for masons’ use, Th. 4.4; ὀστράκινα ἀ. Hp. Mul. 2.193, LXX La. 4.2; pails or buckets used by firemen, Plu. Rom. 20; sacks of leather, θ

2 receptacle, reservoir, bed

receptacle, reservoir, X. Oec. 9.2, Pl. Lg. 845e; bed of the sea, Pl. Criti. 111a.

3 coffin, sarcophagus

coffin, sarcophagus, IG 12(2).494 (Lesbos), BSA 17.227 (Pamphyl.), etc.

II vessel, cavity, afterbirth, capsule, the body

of the human or animal body, vessel, cavity, Hp. Morb. 4.37, Arist. HA 521b6, PA 680b33; of the veins, Id. HA 511b17, al.; the lungs, Id. GA 787b3; the female breast, Id. PA 692a12; afterbirth, Sor. 2.57; of plants, capsule, Thphr. HP 1.11.1:—later, the body itself, M.Ant. 3.3, cf. Secund. Sent. 7.

In the wild

ἀγγείωι · angeiōi Aristotle, Categories (DIORISIS sentence 248)
ἀγγείωι · angeiōi Aristotle, Categories (DIORISIS sentence 248)
ἀγγείοις · angeiois Aristotle, De Insomniis (DIORISIS sentence 42)
ἀγγείοις · angeiois Aristotle, De juventute et senectute, De vita et morte (DIORISIS sentence 47)
ἀγγεῖον · angeion Aristotle, De Respiratione (DIORISIS sentence 78)
ἀγγεῖον · angeion Aristotle, Metaphysics book 5 (DIORISIS sentence 1421)

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