The corpus record

κᾰπηλ-εῖον

kapeleion · τό

shop of a κάπηλος

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Where it lives

Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

κᾰπηλ-εῖον · kapēl-eion — LSJ

shop of a κάπηλος, tavern, meat-market

shop of a κάπηλος, freq. of a tavern, Com.Adesp. 493 (in a parody of Sophocles), Ar. Lys. 427, Ec. 154, Lys. 1.24, Eub. 80, Isoc. 7.49, cf. Theopomp. Hist. 65, Tab.Defix. 87 (iv B. C.), Ἀρχ.Ἐφ. 1923.39 (pl., Orop., iv B. C.), PTeb. 43.18 (ii B. C.), POxy. 2109.11 (iii A. D.): pl., καπηλεῖα, τά (prob. l. for κάπηλα), the meat-market at Tarentum, Hsch.

In the wild

καπηλεῖα · kapēleia Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
καπηλείῳ · kapēleiōi Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5170)
καπηλεῖα · kapēleia Xenophon, Anabasis 1.2.24 (DIORISIS sentence 127)

Where it came from

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