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1438
Κευθμώνων
of hiding-places
… Iliad with a diple; and keuqmo/s was used unambiguously by
Callimachus
(Hymn to Zeus 34: keuqmo/n) and Lycophron (Alexandra 317: keuqmw=|). Of course this only proves that Hellenistic scholarship had decided keuqmo/s existed as …
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1446
Κεφαλή
head, extremity
… chi). The Macedonian word for "head" appears as keblh/ in
Callimachus
fr. 657 Pfeiffer; see also keblh/puris "red-capped bird" in Aristophanes, Birds 303. Hesychius kappa1959 has kebalh/ glossed with kefalh/. ku/lic. For more information, …
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1499
Κηκάς
mischievous, abusive
The adjective khka/s is used in
Callimachus
fr. 656 khka/di su\n glw/ssh| "with an abusive tongue", and Nicander, Alexipharmaca 185 piote/rhn o(/te bo/trun e)si/nato khka\s a)lw/phc "when the mischievous fox plundered the fat grapes". …
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1557
Κῆυξ
tern, sea-swallow; Keux, Ceyx
… in Hesiod, Shield 354, 472, 476; Hecataeus FGrH 1 F30;
Callimachus,
Aetia fr.75; Diodorus Siculus 4.36.5, 4.57.2; and the myth is detailed in ps.-Apollodorus 1.52.) (B) King of Trachis, who entertained Heracles after his …
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1587
Κιδαλίη
Kidalie, Kidalia
… a spring (as in a fragment of poetry attributed to
Callimachus:
fr.751 Pfeiffer, "I strayed from the Kidalian spring").
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1733
Κλεωναίου χάρωνος
of a fearsome Kleonaian
… in the genitive case, is taken to be quoted from
Callimachus
(Hecale fr. 339 Pfeiffer). For the Kleonaian (a.k.a. Nemean) lion, tackled by Herakles, see kappa 1732. "Fearsome", xa/rwn, is a more poetic adjective …
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1811
Κλισία
cot, cabin
… upon, couch or easy chair". Both senses are Homeric. [3]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 256 Pfeiffer.
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1843
Κλύμενος
famous, heard-of; Klymenos
… this etymology: see next note. [1] From ancient commentary on
Callimachus,
who uses the headword in the genitive case, and in the upper-case way noted by LSJ s.v.: see Hecale fr. 285; also fr. …
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1864
Κνηκίς
wisp
… and deer". See also, more generally, under Hesychius kappa3103. [1]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 238 Pfeiffer.
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2186
Κουρίζουσα
[she] being youthful
… Theodoridis.) It must be quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities include
Callimachus,
Hymn to Artemis 5, and Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.666. [2] The correspnding masculine nominative singular, again with the same or similar glossing elsewhere, …
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2239
Κωλιάδος κεραμῆες
clays of Kolias
… precise location disputed. See also kappa 1939, kappa 2240. [1]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr.341 with explanatory comment. For miltos see mu 1069, mu 1070, mu 1071. [2] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Lysistrata 2, where …
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2365
Κρέκα
tuft
… h(, kreko/s; cf. LSJ s.v. (and Hesychius kappa4052). [1] From
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 288 Pfeiffer (82 Kapp, 39 Schneider). Scylla -- nothing to do with sigma 709 -- was the daughter of the legendary …
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2424
Κρίμνον
barley-meal, barley-corn
… or an upper-case toponym. There is such an instance in
Callimachus
(fr. 290). [4] Greek Anthology 6.302.3 (Leonidas of Tarentum), the epigrammatist implores the mice to leave his hut, where they will find nothing …
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2679
Κύματος ἄκρον ἄωτον
wave's topmost bloom
The headword phrase is derived from
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 260.57 Pfeiffer (288.57 Lloyd-Jones Parsons), although in the original the words 'topmost bloom' appear in the dative case (a)/krw| a)w/tw|) instead of the nominative/accusative as …
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2684
Κυμαίνει
seethes
… person singular, present indicative active, evidently quoted from somewhere. [2]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 244 Pfeiffer. [3] Aelian fr. 53b Domingo-Forasté (50 Hercher); cf. alpha 968, epsilon 3129.
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149
Λάτρον
pay
… cf. lambda 146. [2] cf. lambda 147, lambda 148. [3]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr.344.
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175
Λαιδρός
brash, impudent
The headword adjective occurs in hellenistic poetry, e.g.
Callimachus
and Nicander, and it is similarly glossed in the scholia to the latter (Theriaca 689); see also Hesychius lambda123 and lambda124. (Both of these Hesychius …
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207
Λαίφη
garment, shift
… see generally LSJ s.v. (Another sense at chi 334.) [3]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 239 Pfeiffer.
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309
Λέσχη
lounging, lounge; conversation
… brave Spartans in Persian-War battles (web address 1). [3] From
Callimachus'
famous epitaph for the elegiac poet Heraclitus of Halicarnassus: Greek Anthology 7.80 (Diogenes Laertius 9.17), lines 2-5. On this epigram, see Gow and …
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352
Λέχριος
sideways
… from where the headword is probably quoted. (And compare also
Callimachus,
Hymns 4.236, where the y scholia gloss le/xrios with plagi/ws.) [2] Greek Anthology 5.294.10 (Agathias Scholasticus): of a suitor going to his lover …
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195
Χέλυς
chelus
… Euripides, Alcestis 447 (web address 2), with the corresponding scholia);
Callimachus,
Hymn to Apollo 16, and passim in the Greek Anthology. Compare the lexicographical entries of the word in Hesychius, ps.-Zonaras, and the Etymologicum …
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478
Χρήματα χρήματ' ἀνήρ
money money (is the) man
… give it to Bias. [3] This proverb first appears at
Callimachus,
Epigrams 1.12 Pfeiffer, where a man, under the prompting of Pittacus, overhears boys at play saying this. See also tau 522, where attributions …
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607
Χύτλα
bath, bath-water
… 4 below); see also Hesychius chi836, Erotianus 137.9 Klein. [3]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 245 Pfeiffer. [4] Aristophanes, Wasps 1212-1213 (web address 1); cf. chi 612. [5] From the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 6.80 (web …
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