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χύτρ-α

chutra · ἡ

earthen pot, pipkin

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Where it lives

Hippias Major 11 · 13.03/10k
Plutus 9 · 11.16/10k
Nahum 1 · 10.83/10k
Birds 7 · 6.57/10k
Joel 1 · 6.49/10k
Lysistrata 4 · 5.04/10k
Michaeas 1 · 4.39/10k
Thesmophoriazusae 3 · 4.26/10k
Enchiridion 2 · 4.03/10k
Ecclesiazusae 3 · 3.93/10k
Knights 3 · 3.38/10k
Wasps 3 · 3.08/10k

Densest 12 of 24 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

χύτρ-α · chytr-a — LSJ

earthen pot, pipkin

earthen pot, pipkin, Ar. Ach. 284 (troch.), Av. 43, al., X. HG 4.5.4, Antiph. 70, Thphr. Char. 10.5, etc.; χύτρας ἴχνος ἀπὸ σποδοῦ ἀφάνιζε Pythag. ap. Iamb. Protr. 21.λδʹ; χύτραι δίωτοι Pl. Hp.Ma. 288d; τοὐπίθημα τῆς χ. ἀφελών Hegesipp. 1.13; children were exposed in pots, τὸ δʼ ἐσέφερε γραῦς ἐν χύτρᾳ τὸ παιδίον Ar. Th. 505; cf. χυτρίζω.

2 pots

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, μεθʼ ὧν ὁ βωμὸς . . ἱδρύθη Id. Fr. 245; τί δʼ ἄλλο γʼ ἢ ταύτην (sc. Εἰρήνην) χύτραις ἱδρυτέον; Answ. χύτραισιν, ὥσπερ μεμφόμενον Ἑρμῄδιον; Id. Pax 923, cf. Sch.

3 pottery-market

αἱ χύτραι the pottery-market, Id. Lys. 557 (anap.), Poll. 7.163.

4 pipkins

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.

name given to black figs by Mariandyni, Pherecr. 68.4.

II a kiss in which one held the other by the ears as by handles

a kiss in which one held the other by the ears as by handles (cf. Pl. l.c.), λαβοῦσα τῶν ὤτων φίλησον τὴν χύτραν Eunic. 1.

In the wild

χύτραν · chytran Aristophanes, Acharnians 1 (DIORISIS sentence 210)
χύτραν · chytran Aristophanes, Birds 365 (DIORISIS sentence 331)
χύτραν · chytran Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 28)
χυτρῶν · chytrōn Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 320)
χύτρα · chytra Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 321)
χύτραν · chytran Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 348)

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