| Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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phi^alê [a^], hê, bowl or pan used as a saucepan for boiling liquids, amphithetos ph. apurôtos Hom. Il. 23.270; also used as a cinerary urn, [ostea] en chruseêi ph. kai diplaki dêmôi theiomen IBID=au=Hom. Il. 23.243=lr, cf. au=Hom. Il. 23.253=lr.
2. after Hom., broad, fiat bowl or saucer for drinking or pouring libations, phialas te kai alla ekpômata Hdt. 9.80, cf. au=Hdt. 2.151, au=Hdt. 7.54; dôrophorousin . . phialas Aristoph. Wasps 677 (anap.); oinodokon ph. chrusôi pephrikuian Pind. I. 6 (au=Pind. I. 5).au=Pind. I. 40; argurôthentes sun oinêrais ph. IDEM=Pind. N. 10.43; of gold, Hdt. 2.151, au=Hdt. 7.54, Pind. I. 1.20, Plat. Criti. 120a (pl.), PCair.Zen.21.16 (iii B. C., s. v. l.), Apoc.5.8, etc.; elabe sumbolon para basileôs tou megalou ph. chrusên Lys. 19.25; of silver, Pind. N. 9.51, IG12.313.15, al., Lys. 12.11, PCair.Zen.327.5, al. (iii B. C.); argurêlatous chruseas te ph. Eur. Ion 1182; ph. lukiourgeis Dem. 49.31; as a votive offering, Hdt. 1.50, PTeb.6.27 (ii B. C.), etc.; pinein ek ph. megalês epi dexia Plat. Sym. 223c, cf. Xen. Sym. 2.23; ph. karuôtê, v. karuôtos II.
II. from its broad flat shape, phialê Areôs metaph. for aspis, shield, cited from Tim. (Fr.22) by Antiph.112, cf. Anaxandr.80, Aristot. Rh. 1412b35.
III. ornament used in a coffered ceiling, Agatharch.102.--The form phielê was less Att., Moer.au=Agatharch. =lr P.
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