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κ213ΚαλλίαςKallias, CalliasC5 BCE; see generally K.J. Dover in OCD(4) under Callias(2). [1] Quoted at alpha 3750. [2] An inscribed list (IGUR 216.1-6 = Callias test. 4 Kassel-Austin) of all the productions of a comic poet …Matched in noteshighshort
κ215Καλλίας πτερορρυεῖKallias is moultingKallias is a butt of comedy for having lost all his money. For, as [someone] well-bred, he is being plucked by blackmail/sykophancy. The females are plucking out his feathers. For he became a poor …Matched in headwordhighmedium
α3750Ἀράχνηspider's web… spider is mentioned in Hesiod and in Pindar and in Callias. They also say a)raxnika/ ["spidery things"], from the nominative a)ra/xnhs. Callias in Cyclopes [writes]: "weaving their way just like a spidery [person]." But …

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Καλλίας

Kallias, Callias

Athenian, comic poet, son of Lysimachos, who was nicknamed Schoinion [Ropey] because his father was a rope-plaiter. His plays are The Egyptian, Atalanta, The Cyclopes, The Prisoners, The Frogs, The Idlers. See [more]…

Καλλίας, Ἀθηναῖος, κωμικός, υἱὸς Λυσιμάχου· ὃς ἐπεκλήθη Σχοινίων διὰ τὸ σχοινοπλόκου εἶναι πατρός. οὗ δράματα Αἰγύπτιος, Ἀταλάντη, Κύκλωπες, Πεδῆται, Βάτραχοι, Σχολάζοντες. ζήτει…

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ε770Ἑλλεβοριᾶνto need hellebore… need of hellebore as a remedy [sc. for madness]. Thus Callias [sc. uses the word]. Also [sc. attested is] e(llebori/zw ["I dose with hellebore"]; [used] with an accusative.Matched in translationhighshort