ὄστρακον
ὄστρᾰκον,
τό,
2). fragment of such a vessel, potsherd, 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.
the potsherd used in voting (v.
ὀστρακίζω): hence
τοὔστρακον παροίχεται the danger of ostracism is past,
Cratin. 71 ;
τὰ ὄστρακα, =
ὀστρακισμός ,
Pl.Com. 187 ;
τὸ ὄ. ἐπιφέρειν τινί to vote for any one's banishment,
Plu. Alc. 13 , cf.
Per. 14 .
3). ὀστράκου περιστροφή, of the game
ὀστρακίνδα (q. v.),
Pl. R. 521c ; so
ὀστράκου μεταπεσόντος 'if heads become tails',
Id. Phdr. 241b .
4). earthenware castanet,
ἡ τοῖς ὀ. κροτοῦσα [Μοῦσα], of the poetry of Euripides,
Ar. Ra. 1305 .
II). the hard
shell 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,
tortoise-shell or
mother-of-pearl,
κλιντῆρες ὀστράκοις .. ἐνδεδεμένοι prob. l. in
Ph. 1.666 ; the
shell at the base of the constellation Lyra,
Ptol. Alm. 7.5 .
ShortDef
an earthen vessel
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ὄστρακον
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οστρακον
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{'content': '<div class="entry"> <span class="orth greek">ὄστρᾰκον</span>, <span class="gen greek">τό</span>, <div style="margin-top: 1.0em;" class="sense depth-1"> <span><strong>A).</strong></span> <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">earthen vessel</span>, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0019.tlg009.perseus-grc1:1190" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0019.tlg009.perseus-grc1:1190/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Ar.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Ra.</span> 1190 </a>, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0019.tlg010.perseus-grc1:1033" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0019.tlg010.perseus-grc1:1033/canonical-url/"> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Ec.</span> 1033 </a>, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0540.tlg003.perseus-grc1:28" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0540.tlg003.perseus-grc1:28/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lys.</span> 3.28 </a>, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0540.tlg004.perseus-grc1:6" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0540.tlg004.perseus-grc1:6/canonical-url/"> 4.6 </a>; <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">flower-pot</span>, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0093.tlg001:6:7:3" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0093.tlg001:6:7:3/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Thphr.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">HP</span> 6.7.3 </a>. </div> <div style="margin-top: 1.0em;" class="sense depth-3"> <span><strong>2).</strong></span> <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">fragment of such a vessel, potsherd,</span> <span class="bibl"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">IG</span> 42(1).121.82 </span> (Epid., iv B. C., pl.), <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527.tlg027:21:16" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527.tlg027:21.16/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">LXX</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Ps.</span> 21.16 </a>, al., <span class="bibl"> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Ostr.</span> 1152 </span>, etc.; <span class="quote greek">ἰπνοῦ ὄστρακα</span> <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0627.tlg023:2:47" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0627.tlg023:2.47/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Hp.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Morb.</span> 2.47 </a> ; esp. <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">the potsherd used in voting</span> (v. <span class="foreign greek">ὀστρακίζω</span>): hence <span class="foreign greek">τοὔστρακον παροίχεται</span> <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">the danger of ostracism</span> is past, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0434.tlg001:71" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0434.tlg001:71/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Cratin.</span> 71 </a>; <span class="foreign greek">τὰ ὄστρακα,</span> = <span class="ref greek">ὀστρακισμός</span> , <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0497.tlg001:187" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0497.tlg001:187/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Pl.Com.</span> 187 </a>; <span class="foreign greek">τὸ ὄ. ἐπιφέρειν τινί</span> to vote for any one\'s banishment, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg015:13" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg015:13/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Plu.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Alc.</span> 13 </a>, cf. <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg012:14" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg012:14/canonical-url/"> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Per.</span> 14 </a>. </div> <div style="margin-top: 1.0em;" class="sense depth-3"> <span><strong>3).</strong></span> <span class="foreign greek">ὀστράκου περιστροφή</span>, of the game <span class="foreign greek">ὀστρακίνδα</span> (q. v.), <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg030.perseus-grc1:521c" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg030.perseus-grc1:521c/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Pl.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">R.</span> 521c </a>; so <span class="foreign greek">ὀστράκου μεταπεσόντος</span> \'if heads become tails\', <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg012:241b" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg012:241b/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Id.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Phdr.</span> 241b </a>. </div> <div style="margin-top: 1.0em;" class="sense depth-3"> <span><strong>4).</strong></span> <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">earthenware castanet</span>, <span class="foreign greek">ἡ τοῖς ὀ. κροτοῦσα [Μοῦσα</span>], of the poetry of Euripides, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0019.tlg009.perseus-grc1:1305" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0019.tlg009.perseus-grc1:1305/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Ar.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Ra.</span> 1305 </a>. </div> <div style="margin-top: 1.0em;" class="sense depth-2"> <span><strong>II).</strong></span> the hard <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">shell</span> of snails, mussels, cuttle-fishes, tortoises, etc., <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0013.tlg004.perseus-grc1:33" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0013.tlg004.perseus-grc1:33/canonical-url/"> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">h.Merc.</span> 33 </a>, <span class="bibl"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">S.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Ichn.</span> 303 </span> (dub.l.), <span class="bibl"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Hp.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Steril.</span> 245 </span>, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0005.tlg001.perseus-grc1:9:25" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0005.tlg001.perseus-grc1:9.25/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Theoc.</span> 9.25 </a>, <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg014:528a:4" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg014:528a.4/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Arist.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">HA</span> 528a4 </a>, etc.: hence, <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">tortoise-shell</span> or <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">mother-of-pearl</span>, <span class="foreign greek">κλιντῆρες ὀστράκοις .. ἐνδεδεμένοι</span> prob. l. in <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0018.tlg001:1:666" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0018.tlg001:1.666/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Ph.</span> 1.666 </a>; the <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">shell</span> at the base of the constellation Lyra, <span class="bibl"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Ptol.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Alm.</span> 7.5 </span>. </div> <div style="margin-top: 1.0em;" class="sense depth-3"> <span><strong>2).</strong></span> <span class="tr" style="font-weight: bold;">egg-shell</span>, <span class="quote greek">ἀπτῆνα .. , ἄρτι γυμνὸν ὀστράκων</span> <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg008:337" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg008:337/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">A.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">Fr.</span> 337 </a> , cf. <a class="bibl" target="_blank" data-urn="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg012:754a:2" href="https://catalog-api-dev.scaife.eldarion.com/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg012:754a.2/canonical-url/"> <span class="author" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Arist.</span> <span class="title" style="font-style: italic;">GA</span> 754a2 </a>.</div> </div><br><br>'}