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- κ1618Κιμωλίαcimolite, Cimolian earthA white clay/earth.
- κ1744ΚλειγένηςKleigenes, Cligenes… all who are masters of ash-mixing, sham-soda dust and Kimolian earth." "Ash-mixing" [is] ash mixed with soda. "Kimolian" [is a kind of] white earth. So he is saying that [Kleigenes] is most rascally [skilled] …
- κ2640Κυκησιτέφρουof ash-mixing… all who are masters of ash-mixing, sham-soda dust and Kimolian earth." ["Ash-mixing" means] that which mixes the ash, combining it with soda. And "Kimolian" [refers to] a white earth. [Aristophanes] is saying that [Kleigenes] …
- κ2035Κονιόπουςdust-foot, sandal… from the [verb] kai/nw ["I slay"), [meaning] I cut; cut-up earth. It is also written as konipoda, namely a narrow sandal, so narrow that the foot was covered with dust.
- κ1377Κεραυνόςthunderbolt[A thunderbolt is] "a violent kindling falling upon the earth with great force, from clouds being rubbed together or broken... But others [say that it is] a gathering of fiery air moving violently downwards." …
- κ2360Κρεάγραmeat-hook"Why on earth would we buy meat-hooks for our buckets, it being possible to let down an old woman like this and draw up the buckets from the wells?" In reference to lascivious and …
- κ335Καπηλίςhuckstress, landlady… vine here hinges upon the fact that phlo/s means both "earth, mud" and "wine dregs, lees". [2] For the otherwise unattested e)/mpelos read e)/mphlos ("muddy").
- κ2153Κοτταβίζεινto play kottabos… a game among Athenians: a long staff fixed in the earth and another on top of it, moved as on a draft-animal -- it had two disks hung from it and two mixing-bowls of …
- κ1127Καττύεταιis stitched together… In Aristophanes it is used in a metaphor for a plot being put together. See also kappa 1128, and cf. kappa 1129.
- κ2226Κώθωνεςkothons… kinds of drinking-vessels, which soldiers used to take. Made of earthenware; they call it ‘washing basket’.. Otherwise of Laconian and military [type]. Since sailors used to take measured-out water, they used to have kothons. …
- κ2225Κώθωνkothon; Kothon… Carthage. The original actually says that the Romans heaped up earthen ramparts before the gates and slung these inflammable subjects onto them, together with pitch, thus setting fire to several towers. [5] After 'sulphur' …
- κ240ΚαλλισθένηςKallisthenes, Callisthenes… he was killed, at the same time as Nearchos, for plotting against Alexander. [He was] naturally impulsive, and [was said] to be motivated by great passion. And a story is told that Kallisthenes ruined …