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1388
Κέρδιστος
most crafty, very crafty
… the references at Photius kappa598 Theodoridis. The headword literally means
"most/very
profitable". The sense "crafty" applies to people (LSJ s.v. kerdi/wn II.1), and is found in Homer, Iliad 6.153, describing Sisyphos (sigma 489, sigma …
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2319
Κραμβοτάτου
loudest, quite loud, very loud
… (kappa 2339) is the subject of the verse involved: "kneading
most
ingenious notions from a krambotaton mouth". See further, next note. [2] "Air-dried" is from Hesychius; "useful" is from the scholia, which still explain …
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1266
Κεκρηγέναι ἢ Κεκραγέναι
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to cry out
… the Suda (and ps.-Zonaras: "kekrhge/nai, instead of kekrage/nai"); it is
most
probably a grammarian's fiction.
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1315
Κενεμβατεῖν
to step on a hole, to lack a solid foundation
… Plutarch (Flamininus 10), and figuratively by Lucian (Gallus 26). Its
most
frequent meaning was medical ("reach a cavity, e.g. with a lancet"), but that is not glossed here.
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1383
Κερδαλεόφρων
profit-minded, greedy, crafty
… but the distinction is artificial. [1] This adjective, dolio/boulos, is
mostly
restricted to lexicographers: Hesychius, Photius, the Lexica Segueriana, and delta 1342 glossing forms of dolomh/ths; Eudemus (2 CE?) glossing a)gkulomh/ths. However Romanus the …
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1429
Κεστρᾶν τεμάχη
mullets' slices
[1] Aristophanes, Clouds 339. The phrase includes the Doric genitive plural of ke/stra. The word ke/stra is also glossed in Hesychius kappa2382: "a defensive weapon; a hammer; and a kind of fish". Photius, Lexicon …
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1432
Κεστρεῖς
mullets
… other fish. ... Of all fishes the mullet is the
most
voracious and insatiable, and in consequence its belly is kept at full stretch; whenever it is not starving, it may be considered as …
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1510
Κηλιδωτόν
spotted, stained
… s.v. maculosus. The adjective is occasionally used in Modern Greek,
mostly
in Linnaean names (kalliw/numos khlidwto/s = Callionymus maculatus, spotted dragonet; khlidwto/s tetra/nuxos = Tetranychus urticae, two-spotted spider mite).
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1891
Κνυζώσω
I will darken
… "and I will darken your two eyes that had been
most
beautiful". The verb is knuzo/w, now considered derived from knuzo/s "dim, bleary-eyed". But scholiasts connected it instead to knu/w "scratch": it is accordingly …
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1953
Κολουραία πέτρα
'stump-tailed' rock
… steep, abrupt rock". Hesychius kappa3380 glosses the adjective as "truncated,
most/very
new". Other lexicographers list *kolourai=os as the adjective corresponding to an obscure city called Koloura, near Priene in Asia Minor. In the scholia …
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2025
Κομψόν
elegant, subtle, pleasant
… tolerate the subtlety of the misfortunes, he rubbished Bahram with
most
disgraceful insults, bestowing women's clothing to him as trophies for his infamy." The misfortune was Bahram Chobin's defeat by the Byzantines; following his …
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