ἐγκοτύλη

ἡ

κοτύλαι

A. a game of pick-a-back, in which a boy was carried about kneeling on the hollow of another's folded hands (κοτύλαι) (cf. Poll. 9.122), Ath. 11.479a, Paus.Gr. Fr. 143.

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Liddell, Scott & Jones
A Greek-English Lexicon, 1940
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