κάδος

kados

jar

Appears 4 times across Aristotle's works.

Frequency by work

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Mechanica 2
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Chapter 28 857a34–857b8

857a36
857b5
Physics 2
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Book IV 2
Chapter 4 210b32–212a30

211b3
211b5

Dictionary (LSJ)

κάδος [ᾰ], ὁ, A. jar or vessel for water or wine, Anacr. 17, Archil. 4, Hdt. 3.20, S. Fr. 534.3 (anap.), Ar. Ach. 549, etc.; κ. ἀντλητικός CPR 232.12 (ii A.D.); said to be Ion. for κεράμιον, Clitarch.Gloss. ap. Ath. 11.473b. 2. a liquid measure,= ἀμφορεύς, Philoch. 155a; ἐλαίου LXX 2 Ch. 2.10(9) (cod. A), cj. in Simon. 155.4 (Hermes 64.274); πίνει τετραχόοισι κάδοις Hedyl. ap. Ath.l.c.; later, half an ἀμφ., Script. Metrol. 1.257, 2.144 Hultsch. II. = καδίσκος II, Ar. Av. 1032. III. funerary urn, Jahresh. 8.154.—The metre usu. requires κάδος, never κάδδος which is written in Them. in Ph. 268.2, al.; cf. κάδδιχος.

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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