χύτρ-α, ἡ,
Ionic dialect κύθρη [[ 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus “fragment” 3] Refs 3rd c.BC+] Bgk., later Gr. κύθρα [[ “PTeb.” 112.42, +others (2nd c.BC), Choerob “in Theod.” 2.146 H] Refs 2nd c.BC+].; Sicil. (accusative to Greg. Cor.p.341S.) κύτρα (but κύθρα is Doric dialect accusative to [[ 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 2.423H. ] Refs 4th c.AD+], and χύτρα is found in [[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 33)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: (χέω):— earthen pot, pipkin, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 284 (troch.), “Av.” 43, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.5.4, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 70, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 10.5, etc.; χύτρας ἴχνος ἀπὸ σποδοῦ ἀφάνιζε 4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus cited in 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “Protrepticus” 21. λ; χύτραι δίωτοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Hp.Ma.” 288d; τοὐπίθημα τῆς χ. ἀφελών Hegesippus Epigrammaticus 1.13 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; children were exposed in pots, τὸ δ᾽ ἐσέφερε γραῦς ἐν χύτρᾳ τὸ παιδίον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 505 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare χυτρίζω.
__2 χύτραις ἱδρύειν set up, consecrate an altar or statue with pots of pulse, τὰς χ. αἷς τὸν θεὸν (i.e. Πλοῦτον) ἱδρυσόμεθα [[ [prev. author] “Pl.” 1197, cf. Scholia (at [prev. work]); Ζηνὸς ἑρκείου χύτρας, μεθ᾽ ὧν ὁ βωμὸς.. ἱδρύθη [prev. author] “fragment” 245 ] Refs]; τί δ᾽ ἄλλο γ᾽ ἢ ταύτην (i.e. Εἰρήνην) χύτραις ἱδρυτέο; Answ. χύτραισιν, ὥσπερ μεμφόμενον Ἑρμῄδιο; [[ [prev. author] “Pax” 923, cf. Scholia ] Refs]
__3 αἱ χύτραι the pottery-market, [[ [prev. author] “Lys.” 557 (_anapaest meter_), 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 7.163. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]