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|Definition=<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> to [[be a potter]], <span class="bibl">Phryn.Com.15</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>467a</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> c. acc., <b class="b3">κ. κανθάρους</b> [[make earthenware]] cups, <span class="bibl">Epig.4</span>; <b class="b3">τὰ τρύβλια κακῶς κ., τὴν δὲ πόλιν εὖ καὶ καλῶς</b> he [[tinkers]] the state, of the demagogue Cephalos, whose father was a potter, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ec.</span>253</span>; <b class="b3">κ. τὸν κεραμέα</b> [[make a pot of]] the potter, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Euthd.</span>301d</span>; <b class="b3">τὸ Νέστορος ποτήριον πολλοὶ -εύουσι</b>, i.e. [[discuss its manufacture]], <span class="bibl">Ath.11.781d</span>:—Med., <b class="b3">ἐκεραμεύσαντο… ποτήρια</b> [[they had]] them [[made]], <span class="bibl">Pherecr.143</span>:—Pass., χύτρα κεκεραμευμένη ὑπὸ ἀγαθοῦ κεραμέως <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Hp.Ma.</span>288d</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Nicostr.Com.10</span>.</span>

|elnltext=κεραμεύω [κεραμεύς] pottenbakker zijn. fabriceren, kneden, overdr. bakken:. τὰ τρύβλια κακῶς κεραμεύειν, τὴν δὲ πόλιν εὖ καὶ καλῶς van pottenbakken bakt hij niets, maar de stad bakt hij een prachtige poets Aristoph. Ec. 253.