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- κ1107Κάτωθεfrom below… word is spelled] without the [final] n among Dorians. And Pindar [ does] likewise. "For I come from the countryside [a)gro/qe] from Khariklo and Philyra".
- κ2087ΚορίνναKorinna, Corinna… Muia ["Fly"]. Lyric poetess. She is said to have defeated Pindar [sc. in competition] five times. She wrote 5 books, both epigrams and lyric nomes.
- κ217Καλλιγύναικαbeautiful-womened… as again here, in the accusative case. Compare also e.g. Pindar, Pythian 9.74.
- κ1725ΚλεόνικοςKleonikos, CleonicusSeveral bearers of it are known: see e.g. Pindar, Isthmians 5.55 and 6.16 (K. of Aigina [Myth, Place]); and K. of Naupaktos in Polybius 5.95.12 etc.
- κ1109Κατωκάραhead downwards… downwards" amongst Attic [speakers], not separately, but as one [word]. Pindar [writes]: "they have been bound head downwards with chains." Agathias [writes]: "slipping on the declivity and falling headlong into the sea, they were …
- κ743Κατὰ ῥάβδον ἔφρασεhe spoke in accordance with a staffThe headword phrase is quoted from Pindar, Isthmian Odes 4.38 [63d] (web address 1); it refers to Homer and his "staff/wand of celestial words". Glossing from the scholia there; also in Photius. [1] For …
- κ1233Κεκασμένονadorned… excel"; the sense "to adorn, to furnish" is attested from Pindar (LSJ s.v.), but can be read into Homeric instances of the participle like Odyssey 4.725: "excelling in all virtues among the Danaans"/"adorned by …
- κ404ΚάρνιοςKarnian… was an epithet of Apollo in the Peloponnese (see e.g. Pindar, Pythians 5.79-80), and the Karneia his great festival there, esp. in Sparta (Herodotus 7.206, Thucydides 5.75, etc.). The Suda's headword 'Karnios' is also …
- κ465Καστόρειον μέλοςCastor's song, Kastor's songThe headword phrase, first attested in Pindar Pythians 2.69 (web address 1 below) with the noun implicit, is probably quoted from Plutarch, Lycurgus 22.2 (cf. Moralia 1140C): when the Spartans are about to join …
- κ1505Κηληθμόςrapture… Women 893; also in Himerius, Proclus, Pachymeres, and scholia on Pindar and Plato.
- κ2713ΚυνθιάδεςKynthos' children, Cynthus' children… The phrase 'high-horned crag', according to Etymologicum Magnum 504.4, is Pindar's (fr.325).
- κ2161Κοτίνου στεφάνῳwith a wreath of wild olive… Olive of Beautiful Crown grew. [6] In Olympian Ode 3, Pindar tells the story of how Herakles brought the olive trees to Olympia from the land beyond the Hyperboreans where he first saw them …
- κ1284Κελαινεφέςof the black clouds; black… 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) and twice innovatively: Pythian 4.52, of the plains of Cyrene, both fertile …