Κάλπης (Kalpes)

Κάλπης is an Ancient Greek form of Κάλπη, meaning “Kalpe — the ancient name of the precipitous rock, at the S. extremity of the Spanish coast, and at the…”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun or adjective.

It can also be a form of κάλπη, “pitcher; cinerary urn”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun or adjective.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales 5.2.1·2: … η, τοῖς δʼ Ὀλυμπίοις πάντα προσθήκη πλὴν τοῦ δρόμου γέγονε· πολλὰ δὲ καὶ θέντες ἔπειτʼ ἀνεῖλον, ὥσπερ τὸν τῆς κάλπης ἀγῶνα καὶ τὸν τῆς ἀπήνης· ἀνῃρέθη δὲ καὶ παισὶ πεντάθλοις στέφανος τεθείς· καὶ ὅλως πολλὰ περὶ τὴν πανήγυριν …

Xenophon, Anabasis 6.2.13: … θʼ αὑτὸν πορεύεσθαι, ἀκούσας τοῦ Χειρισόφου ὅτι Κλέανδρος ὁ ἐν Βυζαντίῳ ἁρμοστὴς φαίη τριήρεις ἔχων ἥξειν εἰς Κάλπης λιμένα·

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.