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- κ1244ΚέκληκαI have called… alternatively, a verse by the comic poet Straton, quoted in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 9.382C [9.29 Kaibel].Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1423ΚερτομῶI taunt… his own wife. Also Xanthus fr.12 Müller (FHG), cited in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 10.415C-D [10.8 Kaibel] (where he is named Cambles; Cambles is also mentioned as a glutton in Aelian, Varia historia 1.27).Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1431Κεστρεύςmullet, kestreus… Animals 13.19; Geoponica 20.41 -- though they are distinguished in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 7.306D-E (7.77 Kaibel) and 8.356B (8.52 Kaibel). The kestreu/s is defined as a ke/falos in the scholia to Aristophanes, Wasps 790b, the …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1429Κεστρᾶν τεμάχηmullets' slices… is a sfu/raina (also a "hammer" fish, as identified by Athenaeus, Deipnosphists 7.323A-C = 7.122 Kaibel), and a sfu/raina is either a "bicuda" ("Sphyraena spet") -- or a ke/stra. Dalby 2003 s.v. barracuda identifies …Matched in noteshighmedium
- κ1408Κερκώπηcicada; Kerkope… Kerkope, a courtesan mentioned in Philaeterus fr. 9 Kock (in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.587E-F = 13.52 Kaibel): "isn't Kerkope already three thousand years old, and Diopeithes' daughter, the repulsive Telesis, another ten thousand?". The Lexica …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ2106Κορώνηνtip… [2] LSJ s.v. korw/nh II.7, as in Posidippus cited in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 10.414D (10.7 Kaibel): the "high point" or "crown" of a festival. The entire gloss also appears in the Lexica Segueriana, but with …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ2318Κράμβηcabbage… illustration of the perceived enmity of cabbage and wine, from Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 1.34C-E (1.62 Kaibel). Athenaeus also cites Timaeus as reporting that the Sybarites ate cabbage before drinking, because it would make wine "dimmer", …Matched in noteshighmedium
- κ1526Κηπαίαgarden [door]… (a feminine noun) in Hermippus fr. 47 Kock (preserved by Athenaeus, Deipnosphists 15.668A = 15.6 Kaibel), now 48 K.-A.: "as for the unhappy pan, you may see that resting beside the socket of the …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1430Κεστρέαιmullets, kestreai… the kinds of fish discussed there are discussed together by Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 7.284F-285A (7.22 Kaibel), that does not make the mullet a kind of anchovy.Matched in noteshighshort
- κ1682Κισσύβιονivy-cup… for being adorned with ivy. Both explanations are given in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.476F-477E (11.53 Kaibel); the former attributed to Eumolpus, the later to Nicander. "Ivy-wood" is given in Apollonius as the correct kissi/nou (not …Matched in noteshighshort
- κ2319Κραμβοτάτουloudest, quite loud, very loud… its secondary meaning "blight in grapes" in Theophrastus); krambale/os in Athenaeus means the same. This accounts for the gloss chrota/tou "driest". LSJ suggests "loud", based on Hesychius' gloss of krambo/s as "dried and parched" …Matched in noteshighshort