κόσκινον

koskinon

sieve

Appears 4 times across Plato's dialogues.

Frequency by work

Click a work to list every occurrence by Stephanus page — each links into the reader.

Gorgias 3
Open Gorgias ›
Chapter ?

493c1
493b7
493b7
Republic 1
Open Republic ›
Book II 1
Chapter ?

363d7

Dictionary (LSJ)

κόσκινον, τό (for the gender v. Ar. Fr. 480, Poll. 10.149), A. sieve, Semon. 7.59, Ar. Nu. 373, Fr. 227, Democr. 164, etc.; φορεῖν ὕδωρ τετρημένῳ κοσκίνῳ Pl. Grg. 493b ; ἐν Ἅιδου κοσκίνῳ ὕδωρ φέρειν, alluding to the punishment of the Danaids, Id. R. 363 d; κοσκίνοις μαντεύεσθαι Ael. NA 8.5, cf. Luc. Alex. 9; κ. ἁλωνικὸν ἀπὸ βύρσης, ἀπὸ δέρματος, κ. πλεκτόν, Edict.Diocl. 15.56, al., cf. Poll. 6.74, Gp. 2.19.5, al. II. κ. Ἐρατοσθένους table for finding prime numbers, Nicom. Ar. 1.13.

‹ All lexicon entries