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Κακοζηλία
bad taste
Callinicus of Syria wrote on bad taste in rhetoric.
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Κακοῦ κόρακος κακὸν ᾠόν
bad crow's bad egg
Some say this proverb derives from the winged creature [of this name], because it is not edible itself, and nor is the egg which it lays. But others say it comes from Corax [Crow] …
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Καλλίμαχος
Callimachus, Kallimachos, Kallimakhos
Son of Battus and Mesatma, of Cyrene. Grammarian. A pupil of Hermocrates of Iasus, a grammarian. He married the daughter of Euphrates of Syracuse; his sister's son was the younger Callimachus, who wrote on …
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Καλλίνικος
Kallinikos, Callinicus
Son of Gaius; he was also nicknamed Suetorius. Sophist; of Syria or (some say) Arabia - in fact, of Petra. He was sophist in Athens. He wrote To Lupus, On Bad Taste in Rhetoric; …
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Κάστωρ
Kastor, Castor
Of Rhodes or (as some say) Galatia; others erroneously say he was from Massilia. Rhetor. He was nicknamed 'philo-Roman'. This man married the daughter of Deiotarus the senator, who killed him together with his …
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469
Κάστωρ
Castor, Kastor
of Rhodes, or, as some [say], Galatia; others erroneously say he was from Massilia; an orator who was nicknamed "philo-Roman". He married the daughter of Deiotarus the senator, who killed him together with his …
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1165
Κεκίλιος
Caecilius
A Sicilian, from Callatis (Callantis [sic] is a city in Sicily). Rhetor. He was a sophist in Rome under Caesar Augustus, and until Hadrian. He was of servile parentage, some say, and his former …
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1198
Καῖσαρ Τιβέριος
Caesar Tiberius
He wrote epigrams and an Art of Rhetoric.
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1238
Κεκίλιος
Caecilius
Proper name. See more fully under the Kai- diphthong version above.
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1449
Κεφαλίων ἢ Κεφάλων
Kephalion or Kephalon, Cephalion or Cephalon
of Gergis, a rhetor and historian, he lived in the time of Hadrian. He went into exile from his native city because of enmity with its rulers, and lived in Sicily. He wrote miscellaneous …
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1452
Κέφαλος
Kephalos, Cephalus
Athenian, rhetor and demagogue, [the man] who was the first to attach proems and epilogues [sc. to his speeches]. He lived in the time when the archonship was suspended.
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1482
Κειτούκειτος
Attested-Unattested
[A nickname for] Ulpian, one of the deipnosophists. He was so called because of his constant challenges: is there attestation for hora ['season'] applied to the part of the day? And for methusos ['drunk'] …
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