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  "headword": "ὄστρακον",
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          "definition": "<i>earthen vessel,</i> Ar. Ra. 1190, Ec. 1033, Lys. 3.28, 4.6; <i>flower-pot,</i> Thphr. HP 6.7.3.",
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                  "label": "2",
                  "definition": "<i>fragment of such a vessel, potsherd,</i> IG 42(1).121.82 ( Epid., iv B. C., pl.), LXX Ps. 21.16, al., Ostr. 1152, etc.; ἰπνοῦ ὄστρακα Hp. Morb. 2.47; esp. <i>the potsherd used in voting</i> (v. ὀστρακίζω): hence τοὔστρακον παροίχεται <i>the danger of ostracism</i> is past, Cratin. 71; τὰ ὄστρακα, = ὀστρακισμός, Pl.Com. 187; τὸ ὄ. ἐπιφέρειν τινί to vote for any oneʼs banishment, Plu. Alc. 13, cf. Per. 14.",
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                        "quote": "ἰπνοῦ ὄστρακα",
                        "ref": "Hp. Morb. 2.47",
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                {
                  "label": "3",
                  "definition": "ὀστράκου περιστροφή, of the game ὀστρακίνδα (q. v.), Pl. R. 521c; so ὀστράκου μεταπεσόντος ‘if heads become tails’, Id. Phdr. 241b.",
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                  "label": "4",
                  "definition": "<i>earthenware castanet,</i> ἡ τοῖς ὀ. κροτοῦσα [Μοῦσα], of the poetry of Euripides, Ar. Ra. 1305.",
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              "label": "II",
              "definition": "<i>shell</i> of snails, mussels, cuttle-fishes, tortoises, etc., h.Merc. 33, S. Ichn. 303 (dub.l.), Hp. Steril. 245, Theoc. 9.25, Arist. HA 528a4, etc.: hence, <i>tortoise-shell</i> or <i>mother-of-pearl,</i> κλιντῆρες ὀστράκοις . . ἐνδεδεμένοι prob. l. in Ph. 1.666; the <i>shell</i> at the base of the constellation Lyra, Ptol. Alm. 7.5.",
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                  "label": "2",
                  "definition": "<i>egg-shell,</i> ἀπτῆνα . . , ἄρτι γυμνὸν ὀστράκων A. Fr. 337, cf. Arist. GA 754a2.",
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                        "quote": "ἀπτῆνα . . , ἄρτι γυμνὸν ὀστράκων",
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