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- α2814Ἄξιοςof a worthy price, worth [something]… cf. already under alpha 2813, and again alpha 2815. [2] Pherecrates fr. 61 Kock, 67 K.-A., from the Ipnos (Oven) -- here mangled into nonsense. It has been reconstructed as: "this is from the …
- α2782Ἀνυδρεύσασθαιto draw up for oneself… the quotation given includes is the aorist active infinitive. [1] Pherecrates fr. 76 Kock, now 81 K-A. (Korianno, "Coriander", was the name of a courtesan.)
- α3194Ἄπιαpears… as a neuter plural, but Plato here (like Alexis and Pherecrates: see below) uses a masculine form. [3] Alexis fr. 33 Kock (now 34 K.-A.); Pherecrates fr. 8 Kock (and K.-A.).
- β517Βράκαναgreens… glossing in other lexica. Independently attested in the comic poet Pherecrates and in Lucian. cf. delta 1602.
- 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-.
- κ394ΚαρκίνοςKarkinos, Carcinus… Carey OCT (where the meaning of "crab" is unclear). [8] Pherecrates fr. 20 Kock (24 K.-A.), from the Deserters. The manuscript reading nh=yon ('stay sober') from nh/fw is emended to nei=yon ('snow'). See also …
- α2074Ἀνασπᾷtears down… (Lexicon alpha1664-1665 Theodoridis). [1] Thucydides 6.100.3 (web address 1). [2] Pherecrates fr. 180 Kock, now 194 K.-A. [3] cf. generally alpha 2011.
- ι552Ἰπνόςoven… an entry generated by Lycurgus fr. 75 Conomis (and citing Pherecrates' comedy of this name); also Photius and Hesychius; cf. mu 10.
- αι299Αἴρειν ἔξω πόδα πηλοῦto lift one's foot out of the mud… [2] Aristophanes, Peace 1; quoted already at alphaiota 280. [3] Pherecrates fr. 137 Kock (now 145 K.-A.); cf. phi 212. [4] Menander fr. 273 Kock (239 K.-Th., 209 K.-A.) & fr. 451 Kock (385 …
- 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 …
- ε2807Ἐποποῖepopoi (in hoopoe-ese)… a carrier pigeon (known in Athens by this time: cf. Pherecrates fr. 33 Kock (now 38 K.-A.), from the Graes, "Send off a pigeon announcing the message"), and the line imitates its excited cooing. …