κουρεῖον

English (LSJ)

τό, (κουρά)

   A barber's shop, the lounging-place where news and scandal were picked up, καί τοι λόγος γ' ἦν . . πολὺς ἐπὶ τοῖσι κουρείοισι τῶν καθημένων Ar.Pl.338, cf. Av.1441; πόλλ' ἔμαθον ἐν τοῖσι κ. ἐγὼ ἀτόπως καθίζων κοὐδὲ γιγνώσκειν δοκῶν Eup.180, cf. Lys.24.20, D.25.52, AP6.307 (Phan.), Sammelb.6762.2 (iii B. C.); εἰς κ. 'to my barber's bill', Lys.32.20 (v.l.); ἐν κουρείοις ἢ μυροπωλίοις Phld.Ir. p.47 W.    II κούρειον, proparox. (Hdn.Gr.1.372), victim offered for boys and feasted on by the φράτερες at the feast κουρεῶτις, S.Fr. 126, Is.6.22 (κούριον codd.), IG22.1237.28, Inscr.Prien.362.13 (iv B. C.).