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κ211Καλιάhut; grotto[Meaning] nest; or properly a wooden house. For timbers are kala. [Those] out of which it is put together. In the Epigrams: "and a walled grotto of pine-crowned Pan". The iota [sc. in kalia/] …Matched in headwordhighshort
κ212ΚαλλιάνειραKallianeira, Callianira[no gloss]Matched in headwordhighshort
κ213ΚαλλίαςKallias, CalliasC5 BCE; see generally K.J. Dover in OCD(4) under Callias(2). [1] Quoted at alpha 3750. [2] An inscribed list (IGUR 216.1-6 = Callias test. 4 Kassel-Austin) of all the productions of a comic poet …Matched in noteshighshort
κ214ΚαλλίαςKallias, CalliasThe one given the nickname 'Pit-wealthy'; serving as general against Artaxerxes he secured the boundaries of the treaties [made] under Kimon. Launching an invasion in his time, the Lakedaimonians, with Pleistoanax the son of …Matched in headwordhighmedium
κ215Καλλίας πτερορρυεῖKallias is moultingKallias is a butt of comedy for having lost all his money. For, as [someone] well-bred, he is being plucked by blackmail/sykophancy. The females are plucking out his feathers. For he became a poor …Matched in headwordhighmedium
ε770Ἑλλεβοριᾶνto need hellebore… need of hellebore as a remedy [sc. for madness]. Thus Callias [sc. uses the word]. Also [sc. attested is] e(llebori/zw ["I dose with hellebore"]; [used] with an accusative.Matched in translationhighshort
λ58ΛακκόπλουτονPit-rich, Pit-wealthyThus they used to call Callias the Athenian for this reason: Xerxes, defeated in the sea-battle at Salamis, fled from Athens, but one of the Persians was stationed on Callias’ [property] and deposited his …Matched in translationhighshort
α3750Ἀράχνηspider's web… spider is mentioned in Hesiod and in Pindar and in Callias. They also say a)raxnika/ ["spidery things"], from the nominative a)ra/xnhs. Callias in Cyclopes [writes]: "weaving their way just like a spidery [person]." But …Matched in translationhighmedium
δ1325Δοκησίσοφοςsupposing oneself wise… the sophist (fr. 105 DK). For similar compounds cf. dokhsi/nous Callias fr. 27 Kock (now 34 K.-A.); dokhside/cios Pherecrates fr. 154 Kock (now 163 K.-A.). For the topic of youngsters foolishly assuming a sage …Matched in noteshighshort
κ1389Κέρδος αἰσχύνης ἄμεινονadvantage is better than dishonour… second half see under mu 1360) of Attic comedy -- Callias [kappa 213] fr. 1 Kock and Kassel-Austin, from the Atalante: "advantage is better than dishonour; drag the adulterer to the corner". Fragment taken …Matched in noteshighshort