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- κ1646Κινώπεταvenomous creatures… glossed in the Etymologicum Magnum and in a scholion on Nicander, Theriaca 27; cf. kappa 1881.
- κ1560Κηφηῒς γῆKephean land… as 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 …
- κ376Καρήατοςhead's, of a head… virtually 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 …
- κ1499Κηκάςmischievous, abusive… fr. 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 …
- κ2791Κύτοςhollow… Aeschylus, 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 …
- κ1358Κεράμειονjar, pot… as an illustration of adjectives (teu=xos kerameou=n gh/i+non xutrei=on xalkou=n); Nicander, Theriaca 80 (with scholia) teu=xos keramh/i+on.
- κ1682Κισσύβιονivy-cup… (11.53 Kaibel); the former attributed to Eumolpus, the later to Nicander. "Ivy-wood" is given in Apollonius as the correct kissi/nou (not the Suda's kissoui/nou), and Hesychius kappa2794 cites the gloss likewise, but the term …
- κ1889ΚνυζῶI whimper… Some derive it from ko/nuza 'fleabane', as in 'ground-seeking fleabane' [Nicander, Theriaca 70], becoming knuzw= like ko/ruza > koruzw= and r(i/za > r(izw=, which is improbable. It is better to say in agreement with …
- κ2133Κόρχοροςblue pimpernel… on Aristophanes, Wasps 239a, 239b (web address 1); scholia on Nicander, Theriaca 626a; often in the variant ko/rkoros. Mangled in kappa 1404 as a reference to galleys (ke/rkouros). LSJ s.v. ko/rxoros suggests the equivalent …