*kumbi/a: ta\ mazi/a tw=n xrusi/wn.
Same entry, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon (1927). For this neuter headword, here plural, see again
kappa 2683.
If the gloss is intended as a definition of the headword, it is for a usage otherwise unattested. Usually the term refers to a type of drinking vessel. For descriptions, see:
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 11.488F [11.77 Kaibel]; Harpokration s.v.
kumbi/on (=
Photius,
Lexicon kappa1199 Theodoridis), commenting on
Demosthenes 21.158 (see further below);
scholia to Lucian,
Dialogues of the Dead 22.2. Other meanings are attested, though not outside commentary and lexicography; e.g. 'boat' (Harpokration s.v.), 'spine of an ox' (
Etymologicum Magnum 543.8; 'helmet' (
scholia to
Demosthenes 21.158). It is possible that the gloss is an excerpt or a corruption of commentary on a passage where
kumbi/a appear among other things as items of luxury, e.g.
Alexis fr. 328 Kock = 329 Kassel-Austin (in
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 11.481F-482A [11.63 Kaibel]);
Demosthenes 21.158 (web address 1); Lucian,
Dialogues of the Dead 22.2,
Diogenes Laertius 3.42.
[1] Literally 'of the golden [things]'.
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