θήκ-η, ἡ,
(τίθημι) case, chest, χρυσοῦ θ. a money-chest, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.130, 9.83, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1147, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 8.17, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 grave, tomb, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 405, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1763 (_anapaest meter_); νεκρῶν θήκας ἀνοίγειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.187, compare 67, +others; αἱ θ. τῶν τεθνεώτων 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.8, 3.104 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς ἀναισχύντους θ. ἐτράποντο modes of burial, [[ [prev. author] 2.52, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 427b; θήκην ὀρύττειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.3.5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 ξίφους θ. sword-sheath, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 10.144 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τόξου bow-case, [[ EM 333.41. ] Refs]