ἐγκοτύλη · enkotylē — LSJ
a game of pick-a-back, on the hollow
a game of pick-a-back, in which a boy was carried about kneeling on the hollow of anotherʼs folded hands (κοτύλαι) (cf. Poll. 9.122), Ath. 11.479a, Paus.Gr. Fr. 143.
The corpus record
ἐγκοτύλη
egkotule · ἡ
a game of pick-a-back
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