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202
Καλάσιρις
kalasiris
… similar Persian one; also the title of a comedy by
Alexis.
[2] In Herodotus 2.164, etc.: a branch of the military caste in Egypt.
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376
Καρήατος
head's, of a head
… the same gloss in one of the scholia to Nicander,
Alexipharmaca
133: karh/atos: kefalh=s. Before the Hellenistic poets, karh/atos occurs only once (Homer, Iliad 23.44: web address 1) but thereafter quite often as an …
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891
Καταιγίσας
having stormed upon (?)
… must be quoted from somewhere -- perhaps a fragment of
Alexis
the comic poet reported by Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 8.338D-E (8.21 Kaibel), where the fish-loving Phayllos storms into the market to make his purchases. The …
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1107
Κάτωθε
from below
… in Middle/New Comedy (e.g. Eubulus fr. 16.1 Kock [15.1 K.-A.],
Alexis
fr. 128.3 Kock [133.3 K.-A.]), as well as in Doric (e.g. Theocritus, Idylls 4.44). [2] A misquotation of Pindar, Pythian 4.102-3 (web address …
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1324
Κενότερος
more empty, rather empty
… Choniates (CE 12-13), Historia III 1, p. 497 van Dieten:
"[Alexius]
sent doctors away with insults, saying that the only thing they would ever turn to was purgatives (kaqa/rsia), and that out of all …
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1432
Κεστρεῖς
mullets
… phrase is commonplace in comedy as a metaphor for starvelings:
Alexis
fr. 256 Kock (now 258 Kassel-Austin, Amipsias fr. 1 Kock (and K.-A.), Antiphanes fr. 138 Kock (136 K.-A.), Archippus fr. 12 Kock (and …
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1499
Κηκάς
mischievous, abusive
… 656 khka/di su\n glw/ssh| "with an abusive tongue", and Nicander,
Alexipharmaca
185 piote/rhn o(/te bo/trun e)si/nato khka\s a)lw/phc "when the mischievous fox plundered the fat grapes". The noun khkasmo/s comes from Lycophron Alexandra 545 …
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1560
Κηφηῒς γῆ
Kephean land
… a periphrasis for 'Ethiopia' (alphaiota 126, alphaiota 127) by Nicander,
Alexipharmaka
100 (accusative case); cf. the scholia there. Similarly (adjective only), according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon; and more fully than the Suda …
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2318
Κράμβη
cabbage
… because it would make wine "dimmer", and adds support from
Alexis
and Eubulus (referring to the equivalent r(a/fanos). Cabbage is as a hangover cure in [Aristotle], Problems 3.17 (873a37-b24). [5] On the interpretation of …
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2682
Κυμβία
vessels
… kumbi/a appear among other things as items of luxury, e.g.
Alexis
fr. 328 Kock = 329 Kassel-Austin (in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.481F-482A [11.63 Kaibel]); Demosthenes 21.158 (web address 1); Lucian, Dialogues of the Dead 22.2, …
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2791
Κύτος
hollow
… Seven against Thebes 495; to Oppian, Halieutica 1.334; to Nicander,
Alexipharmaka
586; Athanasios, On the Psalms 27.557.22; Cyril of Alexandria, On the Psalms 69.1128.35. [3] Bernhardy deleted this part of the entry. It is …
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