lecythus

/ ˈlɛsɪθəs /

noun

1. (in ancient Greece) a vase with a narrow neck

Word History and Origins

Origin of lecythus¹

from Greek lēkuthos

Example Sentences

He took Torone, Lecythus, and other places, and then went into winter quarters.

From Project Gutenberg

Day now arrived, and the town being secured, Brasidas made a proclamation to the Toronaeans who had taken refuge with the Athenians, to come out, as many as chose, to their homes without fearing for their rights or persons, and sent a herald to invite the Athenians to accept a truce, and to evacuate Lecythus with their property, as being Chalcidian ground.

From Project Gutenberg

Having encouraged them with this address, as soon as the truce expired he made his attack upon Lecythus; the Athenians defending themselves from a poor wall and from some houses with parapets.

From Project Gutenberg

A few of these were killed fighting; the rest escaped, some by land, others to the two ships on the station, and took refuge in Lecythus, a fort garrisoned by their own men in the corner of the town running out into the sea and cut off by a narrow isthmus; where they were joined by the Toronaeans of their party.

From Project Gutenberg

Now there is a temple of Athene in Lecythus, and Brasidas had proclaimed in the moment of making the assault that he would give thirty silver minae to the man first on the wall.

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