κάδος

A. jar or vessel for water or wine, Anacr. 17, Archil. 4, Hdt. 3.20, S. Fr. 534.3 (anap.), Ar. Ach. 549, etc.; κ. ἀντλητικός CPR 232.12 (ii A.D.); said to be Ion. for κεράμιον, Clitarch.Gloss. ap. Ath. 11.473b.

2. a liquid measure,= ἀμφορεύς, Philoch. 155a; ἐλαίου LXX 2 Ch. 2.10(9) (cod. A), cj. in Simon. 155.4 (Hermes 64.274); πίνει τετραχόοισι κάδοις Hedyl. ap. Ath.l.c.; later, half an ἀμφ., Script. Metrol. 1.257, 2.144 Hultsch.

II. = καδίσκος 11, Ar. Av. 1032.

III. funerary urn, Jahresh. 8.154.—The metre usu. requires κάδος, never κάδδος which is written in Them. in Ph. 268.2, al.; cf. κάδδιχος.