κρατήρ κεράννυμι a mixing vessel, esp. a large bowl, in which the wine was mixed with water, and from which the cups were filled, Hom., etc.; οἶνον δʼ ἐκ κρητῆρος ἀφυσσάμενοι δεπάεσσιν ἔκχεον Il.; πίνοντες κρητῆρας drinking bowls of wine, Il.; κρητῆρα στήσασθαι ἐλεύθερον to give a bowl of wine to be drunk in honour of the deliverance, Il.; ἐπιστέψασθαι ποτοῖο, v. ἐπιστέφω. metaph., κρατῆρα πλήσας κακῶν having filled a bowl full of woes, Aesch. any cup-shaped hollow, a basin in a rock, Soph., Plat.