[sc. also attested is] hollow, [meaning something] deep.[1]
"He was in fact so moderate and frugal that he did not even possess hollow silver in great quantity."[2]
*koili/a. *koi=lon, baqu/. ou(/tw de\ h)=n a)/ra me/trios kai\ lito\s w(s mhde\ koi=lon a)/rguron ei)s plh=qos kekth=sqai.
The primary headword,
koili/a, is unglossed.
[1] Neuter nominative/accusative singular of an adjective cognate with the headword, with the same glossing in other lexica (and cf.
kappa 2539,
kappa 2544); evidently quoted from somewhere (possibly, though not necessarily, the quotation given).
[2] Derived from John of
Antioch fr.168 FHG (4.602b), now 252 Roberto, via
Excerpta de virtutibus of Constantine Porphyrogenitus 1.197. In reference to Constantius the father of Constantine the Great; see more fully at
pi 815. The phrase "hollow silver" refers to silver plate.
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