μέταλλον
ἀθρόαις πέντε δραπὼν νύκτεσσιν ἔν θ' ἁμέραις ἱερὸν εὐζοίας ἄωτον → for five whole nights and days, culling the sacred excellence of joyous living | reaping the sacred bloom of good living for five full nights and as many days
English (LSJ)
τό,
A mine, quarry, ἁλὸς μέταλλον salt-pit, salt-mine, Hdt.4.185; μ. τετμημένον Hyp.Eux.35; μ. παλαιὸν ἀνασάξιμον IG 22.1582.56: mostly in pl., χρύσεα καὶ ἀργύρεα μέταλλα gold and silver mines, Hdt.3.57; τὰ ἀργύρεια μ., at Laurium, Th.2.55; μέταλλα (alone) silver mines, X.Vect.4.4; μαρμάρου μ. marble quarries, Str.9.1.23. 2 mine in siege-operations, πολιορκεῖν διὰ τῶν μ. Plb.16.11.2, al. 3 metaph., work, οὐδ' ἐν τοῖς ἀργυρείοις [ἐστί] μοι μ. Alciphr.1.36. II later, mineral, metal, Sammelb.4313 (i/ii A. D.), Ruf. ap. Orib.5.3.21, Nonn.D.11.26, Agath.5.9, AP7.363. (On the etym. cf. μεταλλάω.)
