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  1. κ2253Κωμάρχηςvillage headmanA clumsy gloss for the use of this noun in Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.10 (web address 1) and 24 (where modern editors emend to kw/marxos; web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort
  2. κ80Καθηκούσαιςdescending… of this present participle, extracted from the quotation given. [2] Xenophon, Anabasis 4.3.11 (which has "at that river": see web address 1). For the verb kaqh/kw in this same geographical sense of land reaching …Matched in noteshighshort
  3. κ1253Κεκονιαμένοιςplastered, whitened… is probably a gloss on it. [2] An approximation of Xenophon, Anabasis 4.2.22 (web address 1); it uses not the headword participle but an adjective of similar meaning.Matched in noteshighshort
  4. κ571Κατακαίνωνkilling… cf. under epsilon 1093. [1] Quotation (and individual) unidentifiable. [2] Xenophon, Anabasis 4.2.5 (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
  5. κ1803Κλίμακεςladders… Paullus into Rome in 167 BCE). [3] An approximation of Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.25 (see web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
  6. κ933Κατέκανενdespatched… headword verb is presumably extracted from the quotation given. [1] Xenophon, Anabasis 1.9.6 (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
  7. κ764Κατασκεδάζεινto sprinkle… see Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 4.150F-151D [4.35 Kaibel] and 10.432A [10.39]. [1] Xenophon, Anabasis 7.3.32 (a brief sprinkling episode rather than explicit comment on it). [2] Plato, Laws 637E. [3] The adverb eu)qu/s - but it …Matched in noteshighmedium
  8. κ2561Κοινῶναςparticipants… of the 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: …Matched in noteshighshort
  9. κ371Καρδιώττεινto have heartburn, to have stomach-ache… Kaibel (now 204 K.-A.; see also their testimonium #34). [2] Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.8; cf. beta 440.Matched in noteshighshort
  10. κ1375ΚερασοῦςKerasous, Cerasus[1] Xenophon, Anabasis 5.3.2 (web address 1). There were actually two cities of this name on the southern shore of the Black Sea; Xenophon meant the more important westerly one, also called Pharnakeia. For …Matched in noteshighshort
  11. κ1838Κλώψthief… comes from Gregory of Nazianzus, Poems 2.1.55.3. [2] Misquotation of Xenophon, Anabasis 4.6.17: "for the foot-soldiers captured some of the thieves following (e(pome/nwn) us, by setting an ambush". [3] Greek Anthology 6.157.2 (Theodoridas), addressed …Matched in noteshighshort
  12. κ625Καταλίπωμενlet us leave… first person plural. Evidently quoted from somewhere, perhaps Plato or Xenophon, but too common to identify the source.Matched in noteshighshort
  13. κ313Κανθήλιοςpack-ass… the scholia to Aristophanes, Wasps 170. [3] An approximation of Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.5.11 (web address 1); cf. pi 1720. [4] Polybius 8.38.1 (web address 2).Matched in noteshighshort
  14. κ360Καρβάσιναιbrogues… not convey to modern readers the essential point (added by Xenophon in the quotation below) that the footwear in question here was made of undressed leather. In other contexts the same material was used …Matched in noteshighshort
  15. κ412Καρπαίαkarpaia, crop-dance… calls the dance 'Macedonian'. [1] The passage in question is Xenophon, Anabasis 6.1.7: "after this some men from Ainos and Magnesia [in Thessaly] stood up and danced, in armour, the so-called karpaia". It was …Matched in noteshighshort
  16. κ554Καταθεῖoverruns… lexica. The headword must be quoted from somewhere -- perhaps Xenophon, Cyropaedia 5.4.15. cf. kappa 547, kappa 550, kappa 551; also kappa 929, kappa 930, kappa 1307.Matched in noteshighshort
  17. κ496Κατάγαιον οἴκημαunderground dwellingcf. generally alpha 1819, alpha 2550, alpha 2582. [1] Xenophon, Anabasis 4.5.25 (web address 1).Matched in noteshighshort
  18. κ468ΚαστωλόςKastolos, Castolus… a homonymous city) in Lydia, present-day Turkey. Mentioned in e.g. Xenophon, Hellenica 1.4.3 (marshaling-point for Persian troops in the region). Barrington Atlas Map 62 Grid A4.Matched in noteshighshort
  19. κ2488Κρωβύλοςtop-knot… are at pi 1686, tau 1201, and upsilon 304. [4] Xenophon, Anabasis 5.4.13 (web address 3), in reference to the Mossynoikoi; cf. sigma 722. [5] For this last sentence cf. especially Harpocration s.v. krwbu/los.Matched in noteshighshort
  20. κ232Καλινδούμενοιlurching, wallowing… participle. It must be quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities include Xenophon, Anabasis 5.2.31. For the verb cf. under alpha 2695, eta 229, upsilon 78, psi 164.Matched in noteshighshort
  21. κ2330Κράσπεδα ὄρουςskirts of a mountainAs Adler noted, the headword phrase recalls Xenophon, Hellenica 4.6.8: "into the skirts of the mountains" (web address 1). For another meaning of kra/spedon, see kappa 2331.Matched in noteshighshort
  22. κ373ΚαρδοῦχοιKardouchi, CarduchiA careless summary of what is said by Xenophon, Anabasis 4.2.27-28: the Kardouchoi (whom the Greek mercenaries encountered in Kurdistan) were armed only with arrows and slings, and it was as archers that they …Matched in noteshighshort
  23. κ1100Κατ' οὐράνat the rear… the tail'.) Theodoridis at Photius s.v. suggests several passages of Xenophon from where it might be quoted.Matched in noteshighshort
  24. κ2509Κρυψίνουςsecretive, thought-concealing… Zintzen (28 Asmus); cf. epsilon 3988, iota 122. Compare generally Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.6.27.Matched in noteshighshort
  25. κ1469Κεχωσμένοςheaped-up… xo/w is first attested in the infinitive in Thucydides (2.102.6), Xenophon (Cyropaedia 7.3.15), and Deilochus (FGrH 471 F5a). The corresponding participle, here in the masculine nominative singular, is perhaps cited here from Plato Comicus …Matched in noteshighshort
  26. κ2170ΚοτύωραKotyora, Cotyora… 12.3.17; Barrington Atlas Map 87 Grid C4. Present-day Ordu. [1] Xenophon, Anabasis 5.5.3 (web address 1). [2] Still Kotyora by the time of Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. (who classifies it as a village).Matched in noteshighshort
  27. κ2061Κόπτοντεςslaughtering, striking down… Gaisford suggested that this is an approximation, or paraphrase, of Xenophon, Anabasis 2.1.6 (web address 1): "the troops provided themselves with food as best they could, by slaughtering oxen and asses of the baggage …Matched in noteshighshort
  28. κ466Καστορίδωνof Castorids, of Kastorids… quotation given. For the large Spartan kastorides, a.k.a. kastoriai, cf. Xenophon, On Hunting 3.1. [2] Greek Anthology 6.167 (Agathias Scholasticus); again at tau 1009 (but with, wrongly, a single dog). The quotation shows Doric …Matched in noteshighshort
  29. κ771Κατὰ σκοπόνin accordance with (the) mark… who also notes an instance of kata\ to\n skopo/n in Xenophon. For mark/objective/target cf. generally sigma 662; and for prepositional phrases with skopo/s -- though not this one -- see LSJ s.v., II.1. [1] …Matched in noteshighshort
  30. κ1168Καιναὶ πόλειςKainai cities (?)… cities'. But more probably the entry has been generated by Xenophon, Anabasis 2.4.28: in Media X. and his colleagues come to 'a large and prosperous polis called Kainai' (po/lis...mega/lh kai\ eu)dai/mwn o)/noma *kainai/): web …Matched in noteshighshort

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