κύμβη
βίος ἀνεόρταστος μακρὴ ὁδὸς ἀπανδόκευτος → a life without feasting is a long journey without an inn | a life without festivals is a long journey without inns | a life without festivals is a long road without inns | a life without festivity is a long road without an inn | a life without festivity is like a long road without an inn | a life without holidays is like a long road without taverns | a life without parties is a long journey without inns | a life without public holidays is a long road without hotels
English (LSJ)
(A), ἡ,
A hollow of a vessel: drinking-cup, bowl, Nic.Al.164, 389, Th.948, Philem.Gloss. ap. Ath.11.483a; = ὀξύβαφον, Hsch. II boat, S.Fr.127; Phoenician acc. to Plin.HN7.208. III knapsack, wallet, Hsch. (Cf. κύμβος.)
κύμβη (B), ἡ,
A = κύβη, head, EM545.27: hence, a kind of bird, perh. tumbler-pigeon (cf. κύμβαχος), πτεροβάμονες κύμβαι Emp.20.7.
