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- κ377Καρηβαρίαheadache, hangover… according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (312); and cf. Pollux 2.41. See also kappa 378.Matched in noteshighshort
- κ236Καλλιπάρῃοςbeautiful-cheeked… Anthology 9.96.3 (Antipater of Thessalonica). For the form kallipa/reios see Pollux 2.87.Matched in noteshighshort
- κ50Καθέντεςsending downSame entry in Photius and other lexica (and cf. Pollux 1.107). The headword is an aorist participle, masculine nominative plural, of the verb kaqi/hmi. (It must be quoted from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities.) …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1627Κιναβρώντων αἰγῶνof stinking goats… occurs (web address 1). The addition of armpits is from Pollux's gloss of kina/bra (kappa 1626).Matched in noteshighshort
- κ2799Κυφόςstooping… to Athena's olive tree on the Acropolis of Athens) see Pollux 9.17, alongside Hesychius alpha7851, pi23; Pollux 6.163. [4] Greek Anthology 5.185.3 (Asclepiades). The subject is a fishmonger.Matched in noteshighshort
- κ248Καλοπόδιονlast… For kalo/pous (also written kala-) see e.g. Plato, Symposium 191A; Pollux 2.195; Etym. Magn. 486.6.Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1741ΚλεψιποτῶI drink secretly… (see next note) it is attested only here and in Pollux 6.20.7. [2] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 66 Habrich.Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1135ΚαυλῶI form a shoot, I form a stalk… perfect active participle of e)kkaule/w is attested only in lexicographers (Pollux, Apollonius, Apion, Hesychius), and the passage cited is Suda's own, in omicron 598, glossing o)/rmena. The gloss may be derived from Pollux 6.54.4: …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1903Κοδομήϊονbarley-roasting vessel… a neuter noun, is a variant of kodomei=on, attested in Pollux 6.64, 7.181, 10.114, and kodomi/a, ta/ Hesychius, and derived from kodomeu/w. The stem is routinely mentioned as Attic for "bake" (e.g. scholia on …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ469ΚάστωρCastor, Kastor… of Rhetoric; and other works. On statues of Castor and Pollux see under Dioscuri.Matched in translationhighmedium
- κ2120Κόρυζαsnot… by Galen, Paul of Aegina, and other late medical authors. Pollux 2.78 notes it is Attic, and the term is glossed in Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon s.v. koruza=n. Hesychius glosses it, but also uses it …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ304Κάνδυςkandus, kandys… commonly appears in Persian or Median contexts. [2] Quotation unidentifiable. Pollux 7.58 also cites the ka/ndus in association with 'pants' (a)nacuri/des: alpha 1993, epsilon 2838, phi 460); and cf. Arrian, Anabasis 6.29.6. For the …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ2599Κυβίστησιςtumbling… singular. This particular form is attested only in lexicography; cf. Pollux 4.105. [1] Future active infinitive of the verb kubista/w ('to tumble': kappa 2598), from which the headword is a nominal derivative. This particular …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ2570Κοῖτιςbedlet… Oxoniensia 2.456.7); scholia to Lucian 61.21 Rabe; cf. Hesychius kappa3275, Pollux 7.160. At Photius, Lexicon lambda159 (s.v. lekani/s) the term is defined somewhat differently as referring to the container in which fathers would send …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1854Κνάφοςcarding-comb… and Etymogicum Gudianum), Herodian, De prosodia catholica p. 446, and Pollux 7.37. Similar wording in epsilon 2396; slightly different definition in kappa 1853. [1] Herodotus 1.92.4 (it is it used as an instrument of …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ652ΚαταμήληνprobingSimilar entry already in Hesychius (kappa1266, s.v. katamhlw=sa1) and in Pollux 4.181. Photius has the Suda's entry but under the headword katamhlw=n, as translated here; cf. kappa 649. The Suda's headword as transmitted is …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ198Καλαμώμενοςstalk-binding, reaping… but Hesychius kappa407 has an entry for kalamw/menon, said by Pollux 7.142 to occur in Cratinus (fr. 420 Kock, now 461 K.-A.). [2] This third person plural, present indicative middle, of the same verb …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1526Κηπαίαgarden [door]… a socket was some kind of snare or trap. But Pollux names the khpai/a qu/ra as a part of the house in 1.76, and as a derivative of kh=pos in 9.13; garden doors are …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1626Κινάβραgoat-stench… stench of both human armpits and goats is given in Pollux 2.77; Phrynichus, Preparatio Sophistica p. 60 de Borries proscribes its application to humans.Matched in noteshighshort
- κ2035Κονιόπουςdust-foot, sandal… nominative, appears as the accusative koni/poda in Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 848. Pollux 7.86 and Hesychius kappa3517 merely gloss koni/podes (in this sense, LSJ s.v. II; sense I is quite different) as "elderly shoes". [1] The …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1047Κατήλιφαroof-beam, ladder, upper storey… lexica: Hesychius s.v. kath=liy and meso/dmh; Photius s.v. kath=liy; and Pollux 7. 123. It denotes a horizontal construction in the upper part (roof) of a house or a ship (e.g, a storage shelf supported …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ2725Κυνοῦχοςdog-hold… word. Contrast Xenophon, Kynegetikos [On Hunting] 2.9 (web address 1); Pollux 5.31, 10.64; Pausanias the Atticist kappa57 (= Hesychius kappa4618); Photius, Lexicon kappa1222 Theodoridis. [2] Greek Anthology 6.298.3 (Leonidas of Tarentum); Sochares the Cynic …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1358Κεράμειονjar, pot… in other attested instances: Oribasius, Eclogae medicamentorum (as keramiai/w| teu/xei); Pollux 10.30 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.Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1513Κηλόνειονswipe, swing-beam… s.v. kh=la, Hesychius s.v. khlw/nia; khlw/neion: Aristophanes fr. 679 Edmonds, Pollux 7.143, Hesychius s.v., Aristotle, Mechanica 857a, 857b, Menander, Dyscolus 536, Aeneas Tacticus 39.7.Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1682Κισσύβιονivy-cup… defined with this gloss (without "properly") in Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon. Pollux 6.97 instead suggests it was so called for being adorned with ivy. Both explanations are given in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.476F-477E (11.53 Kaibel); the …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ2561Κοινῶναςparticipants… latter is particularly associated in late-antique scholarship with Xenophon (see Pollux 8.134), and apart from the second quotation given here (see n. 3 below), all literary attestations are found in Xenophon's Cyropaedia: in addition …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ2759Κυρίαsovereignty… Photius, Lexicon kappa1247 Theodoridis, and likewise or similarly elsewhere (e.g. Pollux, Onomasticon 1.67.3). Perhaps a gloss on Demosthenes 21.84 (and 21.93), 'the statutory [day]' when a lawsuit in classical Athens had to come to …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ2648ΚυκλοβόροςKykloboros, Cycloborus… to Kleon (kappa 1731). See already at kappa 1261; cf. Pollux 6.146, 10.85; Hesychius kappa4476. No non-lexicographical reference to this supposed river is made outside Aristophanes (here and at fr. 636 Kock). One of …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ2602Κύβοςcube (six-sided gambling die or a square face or pip (spot) on such a die)… (the meaning of kubos here is probably that given at Pollux 9.95, each 'spot', for that is the meaning of trh=ma). Euripides, in a line (Telephus?, fr. 888) selected ironically by Dionysus in Aristophanes' …Matched in noteshighmedium
- κ318Κανοῦνbasket… Hesychius kappa650. [1] = Hesychius kappa679, Synagoge, Photius kappa161; cf. Pollux 7.176. [2] From a scholion on Aristophanes, Acharnians 242 (web address 1); cf. kappa 308. [3] From a scholion on Aristophanes, Peace 948 …Matched in noteshighmedium