φιάλη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ᾰ], ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[bowl]] or [[pan]] used as a [[saucepan]] for boiling liquids, ἀμφίθετος φιάλη ἀπύρωτος <span class="bibl">Il.23.270</span>; also used as a [[cinerary urn]], ὀστέα ἐν χρυσέῃ φιάλῃ καὶ δίπλακι δημῷ θείομεν ib.<span class="bibl">243</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">253</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> after Hom., [[broad]], [[flat bowl]] or [[saucer]] for drinking or pouring libations, φιάλας τε καὶ ἄλλα ἐκπώματα <span class="bibl">Hdt.9.80</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">2.151</span>, <span class="bibl">7.54</span>; δωροφοροῦσιν . . φιάλας <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>677</span> (anap.); οἰνοδόκον φιάλη χρυσῷ πεφρικυῖαν <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">I.</span>6</span> (<span class="bibl">5</span>).<span class="bibl">40</span>; ἀργυρωθέντες σὺν οἰνηραῖς φ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">N.</span>10.43</span>; of gold, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.151</span>, <span class="bibl">7.54</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">I.</span>1.20</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Criti.</span>120a</span> (pl.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>21.16</span> (iii B. C., s. [[varia lectio|v.l.]]), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Apoc.</span>5.8</span>, etc.; ἔλαβε σύμβολον παρὰ βασιλέως τοῦ μεγάλου φ. χρυσῆν <span class="bibl">Lys.19.25</span>; of silver, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>9.51</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>12.313.15, al., <span class="bibl">Lys.12.11</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>327.5</span>, al. (iii B. C.); ἀργυρηλάτους χρυσέας τε φ. <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ion</span> 1182</span>; φ. λυκιουργεῖς <span class="bibl">D.49.31</span>; as a votive offering, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.50</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PTeb.</span>6.27</span> (ii B. C.), etc.; πίνειν ἐκ φ. μεγάλης ἐπὶ δεξιά <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>223c</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Smp.</span> 2.23</span>; φιάλη καρυωτή, v. [[καρυωτός]] ''ΙΙ''. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> used for unguents, ἄλλος δ' εὐῶδες μύρον ἐν φ. παρατείνει <span class="bibl">Xenoph.1.3</span>; for administering medicines, <span class="title">IG</span>42(1).122.125 (Epid., iv B. C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">c</span> [[τὸ ἐκ φιάλης]] = [[revenue from a collecting bowl]] (perhaps), IG11(2).161<span class="title">A</span>116 (Delos, iii B. C.), cf. <span class="title">Inscr.Delos</span> 442<span class="title">A</span>156 (ii B. C.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> from its broad flat shape, [[φιάλη Ἄρεως]] metaph. for [[ἀσπίς]], [[shield]], cited from Tim. (<span class="bibl"><span class="title">Fr.</span>22</span>) by <span class="bibl">Antiph.112</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Anaxandr.80</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1412b35</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[ornament used in a coffered ceiling]], <span class="bibl">Agatharch.102</span>.—The form [[φιέλη]] was less Att., Moer.<span class="bibl">p.389</span> P.</span>