Κίμβικα

Notes

1. Same or similar entry in other lexica -- see the references at Photius kappa719 Theodoridis -- but one marred by textual corruption. The headword itself, transmitted as ki/mbika, should probably be either kimbikei/a or kimbiki/a. In any event it seems to be connected with, and perhaps an error for, kimbei/a "stinginess" (see LSJ s.v.). If so, the third and fourth glosses here are intelligible enough. (For the third, mikrologi/a, see mu 1048 and generally LSJ s.v.) The wasps and bees, however, are out of place here if (as Tiberius Hemsterhuys suggested) sfhki/a or sfiki/a -- which then generated melissi/a or me/lissa -- should actually be skifi/a or sknifi/a (cf. Hesychius kappa2700).