κρα-τήρ,
Ionic dialectand Epic dialect κρητήρ, ῆρος, ὁ, (κεράννυμι) mixing vessel, especially bowl, in which wine was mixed with water, κ. ἀργύρεος, χρύσεος, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.741, 219; [κ.] ἀργύρεος ἔστιν ἅπας, χρυσῷ δ᾽ ἐπὶ χείλεα κεκράανται 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.615; οἶνον δ᾽ ἐκ κρητῆρος ἀφυσσόμενοι δεπάεσσιν ἔκχεον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.295, compare 247 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κρητῆρι δὲ οἶνον μίσγον[[ [prev. work] 269; κρητῆρα κερασσάμενος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.179, 13.50; οἶνον ἔμισγον ἐνὶ κρητῆρσι καὶ ὕδωρ 1.110, compare 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 51, 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 45, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 159 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 841 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κρατῆρα κεράσαι Oracle texts cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.53, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.32; κρητῆρα καὶ ὑποκρητήριον “SIG” 2 (Sigeum, 6th c.BC)] Refs 6th c.BC+]; πίνοντες κρητῆρας drinking bowls of wine, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.232 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κρητῆρα στήσασθαι ἐλεύθερον to set up a bowl of wine to be drunk in honour of the deliverance [[ 6.528,compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.431 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κρητῆρα ἐπιστέψασθαι ποτοῖο, see at {ἐπιστέφ; κρατῆρος μέρος μετασχεῖν} [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 291; σπονδὴ τρίτου κρατῆρος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 425. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, κ. ἀοιδᾶν, of the messenger who bears an ode, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 6.91 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. κακῶν, of a sycophant, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 937 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (lyr.); τοσόνδε κρατῆρ᾽ ἐν δόμοις κακων πλήσας.. ἐκπίνει [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1397 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; αἵματος κρατῆρα πολιτικοῦ στῆσαι, of civil war, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 7.44. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]