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- κ2084Κοριαννοῖin Korianno[In Korianno] Pherecrates has used [such-and-such a word or phrase].
- κ2327Κραπατάλλοιςin Good-for-Nothings, in Krapatalloi[In Good-for-Nothings] Pherecrates says [sc. this].
- κ394ΚαρκίνοςKarkinos, Carcinus… in the ground, they say that it has spread crab-wise. Pherecrates [writes]: "whenever you are at leisure, send some snow so that the wheat crop may intertwine its roots like a crab." A disease …
- κ1570Κῆχοςkechos… Attic Comedy (e.g. Aristophanes fr. 656 Kock, now 671 K.-A.; Pherecrates fr. 165 Kock, now 175 K.-A.) and elsewhere. LSJ s.v.: "only in phrase poi= k.; which some Gramm. expl. by poi= gh=s; whither …
- κ2647Κυκλίων τε χορῶν ᾀσματοκάμπαςand tune-benders of cyclic choruses.… to square choruses: LSJ s.v. II). In their comedies Aristophanes, Pherecrates and others mocked the "light, trivial" new dithyramb (see references, and delta 1029). An important part of this criticism concerned the introduction of …
- κ1609ΚιλίκωνKilikon… kappa 1607. [3] Same gloss in Photius, similar in Hesychius; Pherecrates fr. 166 Kock. (176 K.-A.) [4] cf. Zenobius 1.3. See also alpha 108.
- κ1900Κόγχηνcockle, mussel… the proverb quoted (see below), but more probably generated by Pherecrates fr. 143 Kock = 152 K.-A., (preserved by Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.481C = 11.62 Kaibel); cf. LSJ s.v. I.2, 'shell-full, a small measure of …