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Κεστρεύς
mullet, kestreus
… are often lumped together -- so e.g. Archestratus fr.45 Brandt;
Oppian,
Halieutica 1.111; Aristotle, History of Animals 567a, 591a, 602a; Aelian, History of Animals 13.19; Geoponica 20.41 -- though they are distinguished in Athenaeus, …
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1871
Κνῆστις
grater, cheese-grater
… s.v. knh= turo/n; scholia to Euripides, Alcestis 109; scholia to
Oppian,
Halieutica 2.429. Still, it is likelier that the word is misunderstood: Eustathius, the Etymologicum Gudianum, and the scholiast to
Oppian
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1141
Καυστειρός Καυτηρὸς
burning
… masculine appears by analogy in late Epic: kausthroi=o (sic) in
Oppian,
Halieutica 2.509 (deriving kausthro/s from kausth/r). The grammarians spell the masculine adjective with ei, to match kau/steira. Grammarians from Herodian on (De prosodia …
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1383
Κερδαλεόφρων
profit-minded, greedy, crafty
… gain" in the Iliad (1.149 [above], 4.339), and "crafty" in
Oppian,
Cynegetica 2.29; but the distinction is artificial. [1] This adjective, dolio/boulos, is mostly restricted to lexicographers: Hesychius, Photius, the Lexica Segueriana, and delta …
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352
Λέχριος
sideways
[1] Same definition in the scholia to
Oppian,
Halieutica 2.175, 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 …
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