Λάγυνος
flask, flagon
Translated by Oliver Phillips ✝23 Jul 2004Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] the all-receiving.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λάγυνος· ὁ πανδεκτικός.
Betacode
*la/gunos: o( pandektiko/s.
Notes
- Same entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (141). For this headword see also lambda 33.
In the present entry we should probably understand 'all-receiving' in the sense of capacious, rather than meaning capable of holding any fluid; but lacking a context we cannot be sure.
The glossing adjective is almost unique but does occur in Proclus, Eclogae de philosophia Chaldaica fr. 1, line 2 (= Oracula Chaldaica 202 des Places), where it describes the hall of God.