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krater

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kra·ter or cra·ter  (krtr)
n.
A wide, two-handled bowl used in ancient Greece and Rome for mixing wine and water.

[Greek krtr; see ker- in Indo-European roots.]


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5 stone bronze vessel, the Vix Krater, found in the grave of a Celtic princess in northern Burgundy, France, adds weight to Prof Cartledge's findings.
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It revolves around his need for writing and holding onto what has now become his life; it points toward the ways in which he still can record his experience: "no gravemound will mark the place of our dust, no / arched and beautiful Attic krater shall keep it, but perhaps / one or two poems shall remain" ("nem jelzi halom porainkat, / sem nemesivo szep gorog urna nem orzi, de egy-ket / versunk hogyha marad").
 
 
 
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