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Brewer's: Pithos
A large jar to keep wine or oil in. Winckelmann has engraved a copy of a curious bas-relief representing Diogenes occupying a pithos and holding conversation with Alexander the Great. (Greek pithos, a large wine jar.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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