κρατήρ
krater
mixing vessel
Appears 41 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
κρατήρ, Ion. and Ep. κρητήρ, ῆρος, ὁ, (κεράννυμι)
‹ All lexicon entries mixing vessel, esp. bowl, in which wine was mixed with water, κ. ἀργύρεος, χρύσεος, Il. 23.741, 219; [κ.] ἀργύρεος ἔστιν ἅπας, χρυσῷ δʼ ἐπὶ χείλεα κεκράανται Od. 4.615; οἶνον δʼ ἐκ κρητῆρος ἀφυσσόμενοι δεπάεσσιν ἔκχεον Il. 3.295, cf. 247; κρητῆρι δὲ οἶνον μίσγον ib. 269; κρητῆρα κερασσάμενος Od. 7.179, 13.50; οἶνον ἔμισγον ἐνὶ κρητῆρσι καὶ ὕδωρ 1.110, cf. 51, 45, OC 159 (lyr.), Ec. 841; κρατῆρα κεράσαι Orac. ap. 21.53, cf. 6.32; κρητῆρα καὶ ὑποκρητήριον SIG 2 (Sigeum, vi B.C.); πίνοντες κρητῆρας drinking bowls of wine, Il. 8.232; κρητῆρα στήσασθαι ἐλεύθερον to set up a bowl of wine to be drunk in honour of the deliverance 6.528, cf. Od. 2.431; κρητῆρα ἐπιστέψασθαι ποτοῖο, v. ἐπιστέφω; κρατῆρος μέρος μετασχεῖν Ch. 291; σπονδὴ τρίτου κρατῆρος Fr. 425.
2. metaph., κ. ἀοιδᾶν, of the messenger who bears an ode, O. 6.91; κ. κακῶν, of a sycophant, Ach. 937 (lyr.); τοσόνδε κρατῆρʼ ἐν δόμοις κακων πλήσας . . ἐκπίνει Ag. 1397; αἵματος κρατῆρα πολιτικοῦ στῆσαι, of civil war, 7.44.
3. a constellation, the Cup, Tetr. 27.
II. any cup-shaped hollow, basin in a rock, OC 1593, cf. Phd. 111d.
2. mouth of a volcano, crater, Mu. 400a33 (pl.), 34.11.12 (pl.), Trag. 23.