A.hollow, κύκλου, of a shield, A.Th.495; “ἀσπίδος” E.Fr.185; “θώρηκος” Ar.Pax1224; “περίπλευρον κ .” E.El.473 (lyr.); “λέβητος” Id.Cyc.399; “τρίποδος” Id.Supp.1202; “κύλικος” Pl.Com.189; “λοπάδος” Xenarch.1.10; hold of a ship, Plb.16.3.4.
2. vessel, jar, A.Ag.322, 816, S.El.1142, etc.; πλεκτὸν κ . basket, E.Ion37; “κοιλοσώματον κ .” Antiph.52.2.
3. of any hollow container, “τ ὸ τ ῆς κεφαλῆς κ .” Pl.Ti.45a; τ ὸ ὄπισθεν κ . occiput, Arist.PA56b26; τ ο ῦ θώρακος τ ὸ κ ., i.e. the chest, Pl.Ti.69e; “π ο δ ῶν κ .” Achae.4.4 (leg. πλευρῶν ）“; τ ὸ ἄν ω κ .” Arist.GA742b14 (also of plants, = α ἱ ῥίζαι, 741b35, al.); τ ὸ λ ο ι π ὸν ἅπ α ν κ ., of the uterus, Gal.UP14.14, cf. Sor.1.9; of the fourth stomach of the ox, Phlp.in AP0.417.14; τ ὸ τ ῆς ψ υ χ ῆς κ ., i.e. the body, Pl.Ti.44a: hence, abs., body, “ἀνδρείῳ κύτει” S.Tr.12; trunk, “δ ι ὰ π α ν τ ὸς τ ο ῦ κ .” Pl.Ti.74a; “τ ὸ ἀπ ᾽ α ὐχένος μέχρι α ἰδοίων κ .” Arist.HA 491a29, cf. PA686b14; “τ ὸ ὅλ ο ν κ . τ ο ῦ σώματος” D.S.1.35, cf. Archig. ap.Gal.13.262: metaph., of the πόλις, Pl.Lg.964e; “τ ὸ σύμπαν τ ῆς πόλεως κ . τείχεσιν ἠσφάλισται” Plb.5.59.8.
