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2248
Κωλύμη
hindrance
Same entry in other lexica (and
Thucydidean
scholia); see the references at Photius kappa1302 Theodoridis. For the feminine headword see
Thucydides
1.92, 4.27.3, and (plural) 4.63.1. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, On
Thucydides'
idioms 3, characterises …
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1840
Κλυδώνιον
ripple
… so evidently the headword is too. [3] The codices of
Thucydides
2.84.3 have kludwni/w|, i.e. the dative case of the present headword (web address 3). Nevertheless, editors of
Thucydides
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1367
Κέρας κέρως κέρᾳ
horn, wing
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See also kappa 1366. [1]
Thucydides
8.42.2 (web address 1): "the left wing [of the fleet]". "horn" is used here in the sense "wing" (of an army or fleet): LSJ s.v. V.3. [2]
Thucydides
…
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2297
Κωπῆρες πλοῖον
oared vessel
[1]
Thucydides
4.118.5 (web address 1). Likewise in Photius. [2] As indeed, in the
Thucydides
passage.
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2488
Κρωβύλος
top-knot
… Theodoridis; cf. Hesychius kappa4266, Synagoge, etc. [2] A misunderstanding of
Thucydides
1.6.3 (web address 1), where the golden cicada is a pin used to fasten the top-knot; both pin and top-knot are part of …
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42
Καθαιρήσετε
you will bring down, you will destroy
… of the second person plural, future indicative, of kaqaire/w. [1]
Thucydides
3.13.7.
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46
Καθέδρα
siege
Same entry (from Aelius Dionysius kappa2) in Photius. [1]
Thucydides
2.18.5, on the Spartans at Oinoe in 431 BCE (web address 1). The gloss was evidently thought necessary because the headword kaqe/dra has several …
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260
Καλῶς
well, cleverly
From the scholia to
Thucydides
1.5.2, quoted here, where this adverb (again kappa 262) occurs. The sense of the explanation seems to be that humane piracy is a credit because it is done openly …
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540
Καταδύσαντες τὰς ναῦς
having sunk the ships, having disabled the ships
From a scholion on
Thucydides
1.54.2, where the headword phrase occurs (web address 1). The participle is aorist active, masculine nominative plural (referring to the Corinthians at the battle of Sybota), of katadu/w: cf. …
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598
Κατάκρας
utterly, from top to bottom
From the phrase kat' a)/kras. See also kappa 599. [1]
Thucydides
4.112.3 (web address 1). [2] Quotation unidentifiable.
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κ
637
Καταλῦσαι
to go and lodge with someone
From a scholion on
Thucydides
1.136.2, where the headword (aorist infinitive of katalu/w: kappa 639) occurs in the intransitive sense translated here (of the fugitive Themistokles staying with the Molossian king Admetos): see web …
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856
Καταφρόνησιν
contempt, disdain
From the scholia to
Thucydides
1.122.4, where (as again here) the headword is in the accusative case. See web address 1. cf. kappa 857 and (for u(perfro/nhsis) upsilon 386, upsilon 387, upsilon 388, upsilon …
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κ
972
Κατεργάσασθαι
to overpower
… Photius. For the verb, cf. kappa 973, kappa 1036. [1]
Thucydides
7.21.2 (web address 1) and 8.53.3 (where the sense is a little different).
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1295
Κελεύω
I bid, I order, I urge
… making the second part explicit -- from the scholia to
Thucydides
1.42.2 (speech of the Corinthians in Athens): the Corcyreans keleu/ousin the Athenians to do wrong. The thrust of the contrast is not immediately …
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1772
Κληῗδα
bolt, bar
… of the present headword in tragedy, see Euripides, Medea 661.
Thucydides
has none, of either klhi=+sai or klhi=+da, but Theodoridis (above) reasonably takes the gloss as a general one, exemplified by e.g. Thuc. 2.4.3 …
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κ
2259
Κώμην
village
… itself is not attested in Aristophanes. [2] An approximation of
Thucydides
1.10.2 (web address 2).
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κ
2489
Κρωβύλος
top-knot
… (= Aelius Dionysius kappa40 Erbse), ultimately deriving from commentary to
Thucydides
1.6.3 (web address 1); cf. scholia ad loc., and to Xenophon, Anabasis 5.4.13, Clement of Alexandria 220.12. See also kappa 2488 (q.v. for …
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κ
959
Κατεπάλαισε
wrestled down
… of the verb there is Pericles' opponent, the by-now elderly
Thucydides
Melesiou (OCD(4) s.v.
Thucydides(1)),
probably the grandfather of the historian theta 414; he appears in other wrestling metaphors elsewhere, e.g. Plutarch, Pericles 8. …
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1303
Κελήτιον
dinghy, yacht
From a scholion on
Thucydides
1.53.1, where the headword (a diminutive) occurs. The primary meaning of ke/lhs (LSJ s.v. I) is "courser, riding horse", usually in apposition with i(/ppos as in the definition (e.g. …
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1620
Κίμων
Kimon, Cimon
… 125, theta 126. [3] Sources for the Eurymedon victory include:
Thucydides
1.100.1; Plato, Menexenus 241D; Lycurgus, Against Leocrates 72-73; Diodorus Siculus 11.60.5-11.62; Plutarch, Cimon 12.2-13.6; Nepos, Cimon 2.2-4; Pausanias 1.29.14, 10.15.4. [4] no/mw| pole/mou; …
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80
Καθηκούσαις
descending
… sense of land reaching water cf. e.g. Herodotus 7.22.2, 7.130.1;
Thucydides
2.27.2, 3.96.3.
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152
Κακιζόμενοι
being insulted
… sources for the lexicographers this particular form occurs only in
Thucydides
1.105.6 (web address 2) and 5.75.3 (web address 3) where the usage is passive. (This connection was also proposed by Naber and Theodoridis …
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255
Καλῴδιον
small cord
… the same gloss, is attested from classical Athens (Eupolis, Aristophanes,
Thucydides)
onwards. [2] cf. already under kappa 247.
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404
Κάρνιος
Karnian
… Karneia his great festival there, esp. in Sparta (Herodotus 7.206,
Thucydides
5.75, etc.). The Suda's headword 'Karnios' is also found twice in Stephanus of Byzantium: as the ktetikon of a city of Aiolis called …
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480
Καταβοή
outcry
[1] cf. scholion on
Thucydides
1.73.1; see also kappa 484, kappa 906. [2] Part of Menander Protector fr. 6.1 Blockley (82-83), part of Chosroes's description of the criticisms Ambrus (Saracen ruler allied to Persia …
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585
Κατακοντίζω
I shoot down
So already kappa 584. See e.g. Herodotus 9.17,
Thucydides
8.108, Demosthenes 18.151. Adler reports that katakonti/zw (which she prints) is the reading of ms V; the other msss have katakontuli/zw, which could be a …
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627
Καταλογεύς
registrar
… [Lysias] 20.13 which refers to this and uses -- as
Thucydides
8.97-98 does not -- the noun katalogeus. There is a broadly similar entry in Photius, but without the number.
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κ
667
Κατὰ ναῦν
by ship
… entry in Photius, where Theodoridis cites the not-very-close parallel of
Thucydides
2.84.1. The paroemiographers themselves recognise no such proverb. For 'tackle' cf. under alpha 1912, delta 1346, kappa 259.
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669
Καταναῖος
Katanaian, Catanaean
See e.g.
Thucydides
6.64.2. Katane (cf. pi 225, sigma 1095) was on the E coast of Sicily (Barrington Atlas map 47 grid G3).
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688
Κατὰ ξυμφοράν
by accident, by circumstance
… lexica. The headword phrase must be quoted from somewhere (perhaps
Thucydides
7.57.8).
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