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- κ1627Κιναβρώντων αἰγῶνof stinking goats… occurs (web address 1). The addition of armpits is from Pollux's gloss of kina/bra (kappa 1626).
- κ1135ΚαυλῶI form a shoot, I form a stalk… perfect active participle of e)kkaule/w is attested only in lexicographers (Pollux, Apollonius, Apion, Hesychius), and the passage cited is Suda's own, in omicron 598, glossing o)/rmena. The gloss may be derived from Pollux 6.54.4: …
- κ1903Κοδομήϊονbarley-roasting vessel… a neuter noun, is a variant of kodomei=on, attested in Pollux 6.64, 7.181, 10.114, and kodomi/a, ta/ Hesychius, and derived from kodomeu/w. The stem is routinely mentioned as Attic for "bake" (e.g. scholia on …
- κ2120Κόρυζαsnot… by Galen, Paul of Aegina, and other late medical authors. Pollux 2.78 notes it is Attic, and the term is glossed in Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon s.v. koruza=n. Hesychius glosses it, but also uses it …
- κ1854Κνάφοςcarding-comb… and Etymogicum Gudianum), Herodian, De prosodia catholica p. 446, and Pollux 7.37. Similar wording in epsilon 2396; slightly different definition in kappa 1853. [1] Herodotus 1.92.4 (it is it used as an instrument of …
- κ1526Κηπαίαgarden [door]… a socket was some kind of snare or trap. But Pollux names the khpai/a qu/ra as a part of the house in 1.76, and as a derivative of kh=pos in 9.13; garden doors are …
- κ1626Κινάβραgoat-stench… stench of both human armpits and goats is given in Pollux 2.77; Phrynichus, Preparatio Sophistica p. 60 de Borries proscribes its application to humans.
- κ2035Κονιόπουςdust-foot, sandal… nominative, appears as the accusative koni/poda in Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 848. Pollux 7.86 and Hesychius kappa3517 merely gloss koni/podes (in this sense, LSJ s.v. II; sense I is quite different) as "elderly shoes". [1] The …
- κ1358Κεράμειονjar, pot… in other attested instances: Oribasius, Eclogae medicamentorum (as keramiai/w| teu/xei); Pollux 10.30 as an illustration of adjectives (teu=xos kerameou=n gh/i+non xutrei=on xalkou=n); Nicander, Theriaca 80 (with scholia) teu=xos keramh/i+on.
- κ1513Κηλόνειονswipe, swing-beam… s.v. kh=la, Hesychius s.v. khlw/nia; khlw/neion: Aristophanes fr. 679 Edmonds, Pollux 7.143, Hesychius s.v., Aristotle, Mechanica 857a, 857b, Menander, Dyscolus 536, Aeneas Tacticus 39.7.
- κ1682Κισσύβιονivy-cup… defined with this gloss (without "properly") in Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon. Pollux 6.97 instead suggests it was so called for being adorned with ivy. Both explanations are given in Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.476F-477E (11.53 Kaibel); the …
- μ1191Μολγόςoxskin sack; evilAccording to Pollux 10.187, molgo/s is an oxskin sack in Tarentine dialect. Aristophanes uses it in Knights 963 (web address 1) -- not quoted in the present entry -- and in the passage which …