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lebes

lebes · m

a copper basin, kettle, caldron

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Where it lives

Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

lĕbes — Lewis & Short

lĕbes, ētis, m., = le/bhs, among the Greeks,

I a copper basin, kettle, caldron, for cooking, frequently given as an honorary reward or prize: tertia dona facit geminos ex aere lebetas, Verg. A. 5, 266: Dodonaei, id. ib. 3, 466; Ov. H. 3, 31.—

B A handbasin for washing, Ov. M. 12, 243.—

C A bronze vessel in which flesh was boiled, Vulg. 1 Sam. 2, 14 al.: lebetes aëneae, Isid. Orig. 22, 8, 11.—For ashes: lebetes ad suscipiendos cineres, Vulg. Exod. 27, 3.

In the wild

lebetes Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.XIII.p2
lebetes Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.243

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. lebés (scan p. 372; entry #5874).

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