κερᾰμ-εύς, έως, ὁ,
potter, ὡς ὅτε τις τροχὸν.. κεραμεὺς πειρήσεται [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.601, compare 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus “Epigrammata” 14.1, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οἱ κ., a guild at Thyatira, [[ “IGRom.” 4.1205: proverbial, καὶ κεραμεὺς κεραμεῖ κοτέει 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 25, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1381b16, “EN” 1155a35 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κεραμέως πλοῦτος and κεραμεὺς ἅνθρωπος, proverbial, of anything frail and uncertain, [[ 4th-5th c.AD: Diogenianus Paroemiographus 5.97, 98. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II Κεραμεῖς, Attic dialect Κεραμῆς, οἱ, name of an Attic deme, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1093 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 315d, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]