κύτος [ῠ], εος, τό,
(κύω) hollow, κύκλου, of a shield, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 495; ἀσπίδος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 185; θώρηκος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1224; περίπλευρον κ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 473 (Lyric poetry); λέβητος [prev. author] “Cyc.” 399; τρίποδος [prev. author] “Supp.” 1202; κύλικος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 189; λοπάδος 4th c.BC: Xenarchus Comicus 1.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; hold of a ship, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 16.3.4. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__2 vessel, jar, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 322, 816, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1142, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πλεκτὸν κ. basket, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 37; κοιλοσώματον κ. 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 52.2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 of any hollow container, τὸ τῆς κεφαλῆς κ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 45a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ ὄπισθεν κ. occiput, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 56b26 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τοῦ θώρακος τὸ κ., i.e. the chest, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 69e; ποδῶν κ. 5th c.BC: Achaeus Tragicus 4.4 (to be read πλευρῶν); τὸ ἄνω κ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 742b14 (also of plants, ={αἱ ῥίζαι}, 741b35, +others)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ λοιπὸν ἅπαν κ., of the uterus, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 14.14, compare 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.9 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of the fourth stomach of the ox, [[ 6th c.AD: Philoponus, Joannes Philosophus “in AP” 0.417.14] Refs 6th c.AD+]; τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς κ., i.e. the body, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 44a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence, absolutely, body, ἀνδρείῳ κύτει [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; trunk, διὰ παντὸς τοῦ κ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 74a; τὸ ἀπ᾽ αὐχένος μέχρι αἰδοίων κ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “HA” 491a29, compare “PA” 686b14; τὸ ὅλον κ. τοῦ σώματος 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.35, compare 2nd c.AD: Archigenes Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.262: _metaphorically_, of the πόλις, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 964e; τὸ σύμπαν τῆς πόλεως κ. τείχεσιν ἠσφάλισται 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.59.8. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]