The corpus record

νίπτρον

niptron · τό

water for washing

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Where it lives

Ars Poetica 2 · 1.98/10k
Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k

What it meant

νίπτρον · niptron — LSJ

water for washing

water for washing, Poll. 10.78: mostly in pl., A. Fr. 225, E. Ion 1174, Hel. 1384, AP 12.68 (Mel.); παῖδες ν. ἔδοσαν κατὰ χειρῶν Philox. 2.39.

II Bath Scene

Νίπτρα, τά, the Bath Scene, title of play by Sophocles on the recognition of Odysseus by his nurse; also applied to Od. 19, Arist. Po. 1460a26, and to the Bath Scene in that book, ib. 1454b30.

In the wild

Νίπτροις · Niptrois Aristotle, Ars Poetica 16
Νίπτρων · Niptrōn Aristotle, Ars Poetica 24
νίπτρα · niptra Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 922)
νίπτρα · niptra Euripides, Ion *qera/pwn (DIORISIS sentence 757)

Where it came from

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