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κόττα^β-ος , ὁ, Ion.and older Att. κόσσα^βος (A.Fr.179.4 (pl.), E.Fr.631 (pl.)),
A.the cottabos, a Sicilian game (Anacr.53, Critias 2.1 D.), of throwing heel-taps into a metal basin, described by Ath.15.665d sqq., Sch.Ar.Pax342, 1243, Poll.6.109, Suid. s.v. κοτταβίζειν: κ. is found in various senses,
1. the game itself, Anacr. l.c., Critiasl.c., Pl.Com.69.4, etc.
2. the prize, = κοτταβεῖον 2, Eup.86, cf. Ath.15.667d.
3. the wine thrown, = λάταξ, E. l.c., Antiph.55.5.
4. the basin, = κοτταβεῖον 1, Cratin.116, Eup. l.c., Antiph.55.12. (κότταβος ἀσπίδων is prob. f.l. for κόναβος Anon.Rh.3.210S.）
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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