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6 entries for Pherecrates

α2814Ἄξιοςof a worthy price, worth [something][Meaning] something cheap. Pherecrates in Histos [writes]: "winged wheat worth a garland."Matched in translationhighshort
α515ἈδωνίαAdonia, Adonis-mourning… syllable]. "We hold the Adonia and we weep for Adonis." Pherecrates [sc. writes this]. They also call the image of Adonis, in this way, an Adonion. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] Adonideian crop, …Matched in translationhighshort
α3194Ἄπιαpears… Laws. It occurs also in Alexis and in Savages of Pherecrates: "grab the pears before stirring [them] up."Matched in translationhighshort
β517Βράκαναgreens… glossing in other lexica. Independently attested in the comic poet Pherecrates and in Lucian. cf. delta 1602.Matched in noteshighshort
α828Ἀκεανόςakeanos… is mentioned, in the accusative plural, in a fragment of Pherecrates (188 Kock, now 201 K.-A.), but it seems to be spelled there -nn-.Matched in noteshighshort
δ589Διακόνιονdiakonion, flat-cakeSame entry in Photius, Lexicon delta344. The headword occurs in Pherecrates fr. 156 Kock (now 167 Kassel-Austin), preserved by Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 14.645A (14.53 Kaibel). [1] FGrH 270: Menecles of Barca, an historian of the …Matched in noteshighmedium