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Headword: *la/kkos
Adler number: lambda,60
Translated headword: pit, reservoir, tank
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[The] Athenians and the other Greeks dig holes under ground, making them wide with four rounded corners, plaster the sides, and put wine and oil in them; and these they called lakkoi.
Greek Original:
*la/kkos: *)aqhnai=oi kai\ oi( a)/lloi tw=n *(ellh/nwn o)ru/gmata u(po\ th\n gh=n poiou=ntes eu)ru/xwra kai\ stroggu/la kai\ tetra/gwna kai\ tau=ta koniw=ntes oi)=non u(pode/xontai kai\ e)/laion ei)s au)ta/: kai\ tau=ta la/kkous e)ka/loun.
Notes:
Lightly adapted (and foreshortened) from Photius, Lexicon lambda46 Theodoridis.
The word lakkos was applied to various kinds of holes in the ground: LSJ entry at web address 1; for the kind glossed here see e.g. Xenophon, Anabasis 4.2.22. For a metaphorical use of the word see lambda 61.
For lakkos-compounds see lambda 58, lambda 59.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; daily life; definition; food; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 30 December 2001@22:15:31.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented note; cosmetics) on 1 January 2002@05:29:12.
David Whitehead (another note; another keyword; tweaks) on 27 March 2011@07:27:45.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 27 March 2013@07:47:21.
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