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- κ27ΚάϊνCainThe brother of Abel. [It was he] who was greedy; but Abel attended to righteousness. And Cain having killed Abel hid his corpse, thinking that it would thenceforth escape notice. And after his condemnation …
- κ517Κατὰ δάκτυλονby a dactyl['By a dactyl' is] an arithmetical or geometrical kind [of term] or [a kind of] rhythm, and of beat/stroke; pipe-players use it before the nomos.
- κ525Κατὰ δήμους δικασταίdeme justices, justices by demesThese were formerly thirty [in number] and they used to travel round the [sc. Attic] demes judging lawsuits, but later they became forty.
- κ565Κατὰ κάθετονperpendicularly, vertically[Meaning] the distances from height to depth. "There was a hand-made tank for the collection of water; in the vertical it was no less than one plethron, but more than two plethra in diameter".
- κ628ΚαταλογίζομαιI calculate, I count up, I reckon[Used] with an accusative.
- κ1192Καιροφυλάκιονkairophulakion[no gloss]
- κ1451Κεφαλισμόςmultiplication-table"Aristotle calls 'multiplication-tables' the products of the first numbers up to ten. For through exercise with them, the products of the latter with [sc. numbers] larger but similar to them are explained by analogy: …
- κ1852ΚνάπτωI cardWhen someone came to Xenocrates the philosopher to study philosophy, although he knew neither geometry nor astronomy, [Xenocrates] said: "here with me [ = in my school] wool is not carded".
- κ2135Κόσσια-hundredSee under sandhundredabundance [psi 22]
- κ2212ΚωδαλοῦχοςkôdalouchosA measure of land.
- κ2277Κωνοειδέςconical, cone-shaped[Meaning] a shape of such a kind, like strobilos-shaped. And in the Epigrams: "and on her chest the marble cones of her breasts were still upright."
- κ2596Κύβητοςcubit[no gloss]
- κ2602Κύβοςcube (six-sided gambling die or a square face or pip (spot) on such a die)[Meaning] every square (?face). Kubos, [meaning] one which has a base from all around. Apollodorus [derives the word] from the bent-ness. For they used to say that the one bending on to his head …
- κ2664Κύλινδροςcylinder, roller[no gloss]
- κ2690Κυμοτόμοςwave-cutterA triangular structure on bridges having its sharp part forward in the shape of a triangle, which in fact the engineers call a wave-cutter, resembling the ram of a warship. The Khan of the …