λάκκος,ὁ,
A. pondin which water-fowl were kept, Hdt. 7.119 .
b. contemptuously, of the Sea of Galilee, Porph. Chr. 55 .
2. cistern, tank, Ar. Ec. 154 , Alex. 174.9 , LXX Ge. 37.20 ; τὸν λ. συντρίψας
D. 29.3
.
3. pit, reservoir, Hdt. 4.195 ;pitfor storing wine, oil, or grain, X. An. 4.2.22 , Macho ap. Ath. 13.580a ; ὁ λ. τῶν λεόντων
Thd. Da. 6.7(8)
, al.: metaph., ἀνήγαγέ με ἐκ λάκκου ταλαιπωρίας
LXX Ps. 39(40).2
;καταβαίνειν εἰς λ.ib. 27(28).1 , al.:—writtenλάκος, PCair.Zen. 176.276
(iii B. C.).
4. Κούρτιος λ.,=Lat.lacus Curtius, D.H. 2.42 .
5. a kind of garment, λ. χρωμάτινος
Peripl.M.Rubr. 6