Skip to content
Σ
ReadSuda
Browse
Topics
Random
About
Aa
Settings
Searching…
⌕
Search
Α
Letters
⤨
Random
Aa
Settings
Keyboard shortcuts
j
Next entry
k
Previous entry
g
Toggle Greek
/
Search
?
Show shortcuts
Close
Search
Search the Suda
⌕
Search
All
Headwords
Translation
Greek
Notes
Filters (1)
Keyword
definition
13
dialects, grammar, and etymology
12
epic
4
ethics
4
historiography
4
religion
4
zoology
4
comedy
3
food
3
geography
3
history
3
imagery
3
23 more
poetry
3
women
3
biography
2
daily life
2
medicine
2
trade and manufacture
2
architecture
1
art history
1
botany
1
Christianity
1
chronology
1
Letter
Κ
kappa
12
Μ
mu
1
Vetting status
high
13
Length
Short
12
Medium
1
Translator
✓
Nick Nicholas
13
13 entries for
four principal virtues
Relevance
Adler order
Longest first
Translator: Nick Nicholas
×
Clear all
κ
1233
Κεκασμένον
adorned
… instances of the participle like Odyssey 4.725: "excelling in all
virtues
among the Danaans"/"adorned by all
virtues
among the Danaans". The present entry follows a scholion on this verse and is also the same …
Matched in notes
high
short
κ
1207
Καὶ τάχα ἴμεν
and we (will) go quick
… correctly has future poreuso/meqa in the gloss. Both of the
principal
words in the headword phrase would have been obscure by the time of the lexicographer: ei)=mi "go" had yielded to other verbs, poreu/omai …
Matched in notes
high
short
κ
1256
Κεκότητο
clothing
clothing
1
1
constitution
1
constitution
1
economics
1
economics
1
law
1
law
1
meter and music
1
meter and music
1
military affairs
1
military affairs
1
mythology
1
mythology
1
philosophy
1
philosophy
1
politics
1
politics
1
rhetoric
1
rhetoric
1
science and technology
1
science and technology
1
tragedy
1
tragedy
1
had borne a grudge
… participle, is cited in the masculine nominative plural. It occurs
four
times in Homer, in the masculine dative singular, in the formula kekotho/ti qumw=|, "with angry heart". (Apollonius Rhodius also has an instance of …
Matched in notes
high
short
κ
1376
Κερασφόρους
horned
… kappa590 Theodoridis) is the masculine accusative plural. It is attested
four
times before the Suda, and the likeliest source is Sophocles fr.89 Radt, quoted in Aelian, History of Animals 7.39: "[the deer] lifting its …
Matched in notes
high
short
κ
1413
Κέρμα
coin
… the basic gold coin of the Byzantine empire between the
fourth
and the tenth centuries, although it is usually referred to in Greek as no/misma; stater was a more generic term for a standard …
Matched in notes
high
short
κ
1423
Κερτομῶ
I taunt
… F22 (= fr.28 Müller (FHG), cited in Constantine Porphyrogenitus, On
Virtues
and Vices I p. 339 Büttner-Wobst & Roos). The passage is on Camblitas, king of Lydia, supposedly so gluttonous that he ate his …
Matched in notes
high
short
κ
1468
Κεχολώσεται
will have been angered
… singular, of the verb xolo/w (chi 386). The form occurs
four
times in Homer (Iliad 1.139, 20.301; Odyssey 15.214, 24.544), and it is frequently commented on by lexica and scholiasts; the definition as o)rgisqh/setai …
Matched in notes
high
short
κ
1520
Κημός
funnel, muzzle
… fr. 44.A.647 Mette, a muzzle with pipes attached: "who had
four
yoke-bearing colts, muzzled with piping muzzles". Defined as a khmo/s in Pausanias the Atticist *)attikw=n o)noma/twn sunagwgh/ and Hesychius s.v. au)lwtoi\ fimoi/: "piping …
Matched in notes
high
short
κ
1626
Κινάβρα
goat-stench
… The only ancient literary use of the headword kina/bra is
four
times in Lucian, including Dialogues of the Sea-Gods 1.5: "and he's like the Cyclops, stinking of kinabra like a he-goat". The definition of …
Matched in notes
high
short
κ
1654
Κινυρομένη
wailing
… to shelter your children under your wing, when a snake
four
times coiled, darting from within the hut where the chicks were cared for, robbed you of your birthings. And when he came suddenly …
Matched in notes
high
short
κ
1786
Κληρωτήρια
allotment-machines
… for allocating jurors to Athenian courts, operative in the early
fourth
century (after bribery scandals at the end of the fifth), and later superseded by the even more complicated one described in ?Aristotle, Athenaion …
Matched in notes
high
medium
κ
1793
Κλητή
called, invited; assembly
… a(gi/a (Exodus 12:16, Leviticus 23, Numbers 28:25); and outside the
fourth-century
BCE historian D(e)inon of Kolophon (FGrH 690 F7), it is the first attested use of the feminine nominative cited. The confusion among lexicographers …
Matched in notes
high
short
μ
325
Μαιμάσσει
is eager, quivers
… glossing verbs correspond closely to Hesychius s.v. (mu78). The final
four
are added in other lexica: see the references at Photius mu30 Theodoridis. The Lexicon on Gregory Nazianzus' Speeches (Gr. cites Jeremiah in To …
Matched in notes
high
short