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- κ259Κάλωςcord[Meaning] a rope. And [there is] a saying: "to move every rope". [Aristophanes] says it figuratively from the mast. You must unfurl the sails; that is, move everything with a view to prevailing over …
- κ292Κάμπιος δρόμοςwinding courseSome [race-]courses were winding, not straight and simple, but having bends.
- κ313Κανθήλιοςpack-ass[sc. Someone] slow to understand, or dull. Or a large ass/donkey. Xenophon says: "in Babylon the date-palms are not less than a plethron in size: indeed, when they are under great pressure, they bend …
- κ335Καπηλίςhuckstress, landlady[The term is derived] from the [phrase] "to spoil [kaku/nein] the dregs [phlo/n]". "Dregs" [phlo/s] [is] wine; hence also [comes] a)/mpelos, i.e. being e)/mpelos, having the dregs in itself.
- κ346Καπνοῦ σκιάsmoke's shadow[sc. A proverbial phrase] in reference to exceedingly weak [people/things]. "And he does not know that he is killing a corpse or smoke's shadow, a mere phantom; for he would not have caught me …
- κ1379Κεραυνόςthunderbolt[Meaning] a lightning-flash. [There is] a proverb. Aristophanes [writes]: "if the thunderbolt strikes the perjured, how then has it not burned Simon and Cleonymus and Theorus? And yet they are very much perjured." Of …