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κ2628ΚυθέρειαKythereia, Cytheria[1] Hesiod, Theogony 198 (web address 1). For Kythera see kappa 2629. [2] An attempt to explain the meaning of this epithet etymologically, by its similarity to keuqo/menon; see again under kappa 2738. Compare …Matched in noteshighshort
κ2714Κυνοκέφαλοςdogshead… scholia to that passage. For Kleon see kappa 1731. [2] Hesiod, Theogony 287 (web address 2). The connection that the scholiast is making between Kleon and Geryon(eus), gamma 254, is vague; perhaps he imagines …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1576Κίβησιςbag, pouch, wallet… ki/bhsis is a variant spelling of ki/bisis, which occurs in Hesiod, Shield 224: "the head of a dreadful monster, the Gorgon, covered the broad of his back, and a bag [chest?] of silver -- …

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Κυθέρεια

Kythereia, Cytheria

[sc. Aphrodite is] not [sc. called this] because she reached Cythera, as Hesiod says; rather, she has love hidden within herself, which she sends to all; for through her charmed girdle she has the power. They say that…

Κυθέρεια· οὐχ ὅτι προσέκυρσε Κυθήροις, ὡς Ἡσίοδός φησιν· ἀλλ' ἡ ἐν αὑτῇ κευθόμενον ἔχουσα τὸν ἔρωτα, ὃν πᾶσιν ἐφίησι· διὰ γὰρ τοῦ κεστοῦ ἔχει τὴν δύναμιν. τὴν Λαΐδα τὴν ἑταίραν…

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κ174Κακόχαρτονdelighting in evil… in other lexica. The headword adjective is first attested in Hesiod, Works and Days 28 & 196, but in the masculine/feminine nominative singular. Here it is masculine accusative singular, evidently quoted from somewhere else; …Matched in noteshighshort

κ186Κᾶλαlogs, spars, woodsNeuter plural(s), the headword one probably quoted from Hesiod, Works and Days 427; cf. the scholia there. See also kappa 195, kappa 201, kappa 211, kappa 247.Matched in noteshighshort

κ520Καταδεύσῃwould soak… very probably a version of kata/ q' ei(/mata deu/sh| in Hesiod, Works and Days 556. For this and the glosses cf. generally the second part of alpha 1851 (on which see further, next note). …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1052Κατηναρισμέναςhaving been slaughtered… 4.137, it describes a protection against thrown arms, whereas in Hesiod, Works and Days 536 it means a protection from snow. The present occurrence is the only attestation of the two lines of Callimachus …Matched in noteshighmedium

κ1284Κελαινεφέςof the black clouds; black… craft. The word is used after Homer primarily in the Hesiodic Shield and the Homeric Hymns, often in the formula kelainefe/ï *Kroni/wni. Pindar uses it twice of Zeus (Paean fr. 52f = 6.55; 52m.9) …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1286Κελαινόςblack, murky, dark… a wound. The heart of a man may be kelaino/n (Hesiod, Shield 429), or his spirit kelainw/pan (of Odysseus, Sophocles, Ajax 955, cf. kappa 1288), cf. kelaino/frwn, spoken by Orestes of his mother (Aeschylus, …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1503Κηλέῳin burning [fire]… Hesychius kappa2495 and the Etymologicum Magnum; plus the scholia to Hesiod, Theogony 865, and to Homer, Iliad 8.217, and Odyssey 18.309.Matched in noteshighshort

κ1557Κῆυξtern, sea-swallow; Keux, Ceyx… hybris in calling each other Zeus and Hera. (Mentioned in Hesiod, Shield 354, 472, 476; Hecataeus FGrH 1 F30; Callimachus, Aetia fr.75; Diodorus Siculus 4.36.5, 4.57.2; and the myth is detailed in ps.-Apollodorus 1.52.) …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1754ΚλειώKleio, Klio, ClioBest known, from Hesiod onwards, as that of the Muse of History. See Theogony 77 at web address 1.Matched in noteshighshort

κ1832ΚλωθώKlotho, Clotho… trinity of Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos were the fruit of Hesiodic theology' (B.C. Dietrich in OCD(4) s.v. 'fate'). [1] Differently glossed in ps.-Herodian and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon. [2] Greek Anthology 7.148.3-4 …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1910Κόθουροςdock-tailed, stingless… famously occurs in the dative plural, of drone bees, in Hesiod, Works and Days 304 (web address 1), later quoted by Plato, Laws 901A and elsewhere. Comparable entry, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1918ΚοκκύζωI crow, I cry like a cuckoo… already in Hesychius kappa3296: kokku/zei -- very probably quoted from Hesiod, Works and Days 486 -- glossed with tara/ssei "harasses" and fwnei= o)ce/ws "makes a sharp sound". [2] From Aristophanes, Frogs 1380 (web address …Matched in noteshighshort

κ1920ΚόκκυξcuckooThe headword is first attested in Hesiod, Works and Days 486, for which see the note at kappa 1918. cf. also, and generally, alpha 31; and under psi 131.Matched in noteshighshort

κ2158Κοτιεῖbears a grudge… kote/ei, as in Hesychius kappa3782, taken to be quoted from Hesiod, Works and Days 25; cf. the scholia there. cf. the related noun ko/tos at kappa 2162, and kappa 2156.Matched in noteshighshort

κ2566ΚοῖοςKoios, Coeus… lambda 477. For Koios himself and his wife Phoibe see Hesiod, Theogony 405-408 (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort

κ2689ΚυμοδόκηKymodoke… of the many daughters of Nereus and Doris listed in Hesiod, Theogony 252 and 245 respectively: web address 1.Matched in noteshighshort