[Meaning] insatiable. For a ka/bos [is] a measure of grain.[1] And [sc. similarly] we ourselves call a drunkard a "wine jar".[2]
*ka/baisos: a)/plhstos. ka/bos ga\r me/tron sitiko/n. kai\ to\n me/quson h(mei=s pi/qon.
Same or similar entry in other lexica; see the references at
Photius kappa2 Theodoridis.
The headword occurs in a fragment of Old Attic Comedy (
Cratinus fr. 103 Kock, 109 K.-A.), and ancient gramarians derived it from
kabos and
aisa, a portion of food.
[1] See generally LSJ s.v., and again at
kappa 8.
[2] Not registered in LSJ s.v.
pithos.
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