πίθος [ῐ], ὁ,
large wine-jar, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.527, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.340, 23.305, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 98, 368, “IG” 12.328.2, etc.: usually of earthenware, π. κεράμινοι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.96, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 703, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 187b, “Grg.” 493a ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. ἀργύρεοι, sent by Croesus to Delphi, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.51 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but π. ξύλινοι casks, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 5.1.12, compare 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 8.4.5. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__2 proverbial, εἰς τὸν τετρημένον π. ἀντλεῖν, of the task of the Danaids, i.e. of labour in vain, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 7.40, compare {5-6th c.BC}: Philetaerus Comicus 18.5, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 61, “DMort.” 11.4 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; applied to insatiable appetites, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 493b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; to largesses made by demagogues, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1320a32, compare “Oec.” 1344b25 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐκ πίθω ἀντλεῖς you have wine by the caskful, i.e. your purse is deep, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 10.13 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἐν πίθῳ ἡ κεραμεία γιγνομένη 'trying to run before you can walk', [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 187b, compare “Grg.” 514e, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 469 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ζωὴ πίθου a Cynic's life, like that of Diogenes, [[ 2nd c.AD: Zenobius Paroemiographus 4.14 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; π. φρενῶν a cask full of wit, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Μονόστιχοι - Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum” 240 (= “IG” 14.699), explained with reference to Diogenes by 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1363.40. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]