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κ17Καδμεία νίκηKadmeian victory, Cadmean victoryThis is said in reference to those who are victorious to their hurt. Some say that [this is because] after their victory the Thebans were defeated by the Epigonoi; others [say it is because] …highmedium
κ36Κάθαρμαoffscouring, residue"Aren't you going to waste the offscourings, he said, and go away from us?" Aristophanes says [this]. For the purification of a city they used to kill some adorned [animal], which they called katharma. …highmedium
κ77Καθῆκονdue action; what is appropriateThey say that a due action is that which when done has a reasonable justification, such as consistency in life. Such a consistency extends both to plants and animals for due actions can be …highmedium
κ150Κακίαvice, evilVices are analogous to virtues. Some [vices] are primary, others - such as imprudence, cowardice, injustice, intemperance, incontinence, slowness of understanding, ill-advisedness - are subordinated to these. Vices are [part] of ignorance. [This embraces] …highmedium
κ165Κακοπινέστατονfilthiest, most filthy, very filthyThe [term] "filthy" [pi/non] is applied sometimes to the appearance, sometimes to character. In the latter case it therefore signified someone malicious. Meaning a piece of flattery, a nuisance, filthiest, foul. For "filthy" (pinw=des) …highmedium
κ171Κακοῦ κόρακος κακὸν ᾠόνbad crow's bad eggSome say this proverb derives from the winged creature [of this name], because it is not edible itself, and nor is the egg which it lays. But others say it comes from Corax [Crow] …highmedium
κ214ΚαλλίαςKallias, CalliasThe one given the nickname 'Pit-wealthy'; serving as general against Artaxerxes he secured the boundaries of the treaties [made] under Kimon. Launching an invasion in his time, the Lakedaimonians, with Pleistoanax the son of …highmedium
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 …highmedium
κ219ΚαλλιερῶI obtain good omens, I obtain favorable sacrificial signsA verb. The second [sc. person singular is] kallierei=s; and the [related] noun kallie/rhma. Every sacrifice is dear to God. And on the one hand Christians obtain good omens at the time when they …highmedium
κ225ΚαλλικύριοιKallikyrioiThose who took the place of the Geomoroi ["land-sharers"] in Syracuse, a great mass of them -- these men were slaves of the exiles, according to Timaeus in [book] 6; hence the overwhelming majority …highmedium
κ227ΚαλλίμαχοςCallimachus, Kallimachos, KallimakhosSon of Battus and Mesatma, of Cyrene. Grammarian. A pupil of Hermocrates of Iasus, a grammarian. He married the daughter of Euphrates of Syracuse; his sister's son was the younger Callimachus, who wrote on …highmedium
κ240ΚαλλισθένηςKallisthenes, CallisthenesSon of Diotimos, though some [say] of Kallisthenes; of Olynthos;; pupil and nephew of Aristotle, who arranged for him to be in the entourage of Alexander [the Great] of Macedon. Alexander put [him] in …highmedium
κ246Καλὸν πρᾶγμαfine thing, fine factHe[sic] calls [any good 'fine'] which is commensurate with its own utility. [...] The kinds of good [are] four: what is just, what is brave, what is well-ordered, what is scientific; for in such …highmedium
κ250Κάλλοςbeauty[Strength] is in the symmetry of the similar parts in us, [of the sinews, bones, and lungs], [but beauty is in symmetry of the dissimilar parts], of the face, the neck, the hands, the …highmedium
κ310Κάνθαροςdung-beetle[The term comes] from the pack-ass [ka/nqwn], that is the donkey; and from the seminal fluid [o)ro/s], that is the seed. For they say that the dung-beetle is conceived in this way. Whenever it …highmedium
κ318ΚανοῦνbasketA small basket. At the festival of the Dionysia at Athens the well-born women used to be basket-carriers. The baskets on which they put the first-fruits of all [crops] were made of gold. [The …highmedium
κ320ΚάνωποςCanopus, KanoposIn Egypt. Once, as they say, the Chaldaeans glorified their own god, which is the fire, and they carried him round, so as to compare him with the gods of all the provinces and …highmedium
κ337Κάπηλοςretailer, hucksterSome suppose [it] to be one [word] in place of another, as in the [quotation] from Sophocles: "much mud is stirred up from jars." Sophocles [is] prone to [use the word] phlo/s ["mud"]. However, …highmedium
κ354Καραδοκεῖwatches with head outstretched[Meaning he/she/it] expects, looks out. [The terms comes] from the [phrase] watching [dokeu/ein] with the head [ka/ra], that is watching and looking at and hoping, or to look forward with the head while expecting …highmedium
κ356ΚάρανοςKaranos, CaranusOne of the Heraclids, he gathered an army from Greece and went into Macedonia, which at that time was an obscure place. He ruled there and handed down the rule so that it proceeded …highmedium
κ365ΚαρδίαheartAquatic [animals] do not have a heart, or lungs. Those which have lungs cool their inner warmth by the trachea as a wind-pipe, when the air enters through it. But fish cool their inner …highmedium
κ391ΚαρῖνοςKarinos, Carinus[Carinus], son of the emperor Carus, having come to power and [become] master of his desire, shot up [through] such great evil to tyranny, that to those who experienced it he made golden the …highmedium
κ394ΚαρκίνοςKarkinos, Carcinus[Karkinos] of Acragas, a tragedian. Also Karkinos, son of Theodektes or Xenocles, an Athenian, a tragedian. He produced 160 plays and had 1 victory. He was in his prime during the 100th Olympiad, before …highmedium
κ396ΚαρκίνοςCarcinus, KarkinosAn Attic poet. Someone is mocking Carcinus’ sons thus: "homebred quails, kitbag-gulleted dancers, dwarfish, bits of dung, inventers of artifices." "For their father said that, one evening, a weasel had strangled [the drama which …highmedium
κ418Καρποῦ δίκηproduce lawsuitThose claiming that [a piece of land] is theirs bring suit against the possessors; then if they win they sue for the produce also. This is called a produce suit. And Lysias in the …highmedium
κ437Καρύκηsauce[Meaning] a dish put together from many ingredients. A Lydian recipe [made] from blood and other dishes; from which they also call mixing something up and making a paste of it 'saucing'. Also [sc. …highmedium
κ454Κάσιον ὄροςKasian mountain[It is located] near the [river] Euphrates. Also [sc. attested] is Kasian Zeus; there Trajan dedicated silver jugs and an enormous gilded ox-horn, spoils of his victory over the Getae. And [there are] epigrams …highmedium
κ469ΚάστωρCastor, Kastorof Rhodes, or, as some [say], Galatia; others erroneously say he was from Massilia; an orator who was nicknamed "philo-Roman". He married the daughter of Deiotarus the senator, who killed him together with his …highmedium
κ498Καταγιγαρτίσαιto de-kernel, to de-pit[Meaning] to copulate with. Or meaning to cast down and separate [something] from agricultural grape-stones. The verb [is] context-dependent, so that in part it might be formed from gi/garta ["grape-stones"]: for katagigarti/sai does not …highmedium
κ566Κατακαλῶνcalling back, summoning back[Meaning someone] carefully seeking out. Polybius [writes]: "having renewed his [sc. treaty of] friendship with the Romans, Perseus immediately began to court the Greeks, calling back into Macedonia those who were in flight over …highmedium