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MorphologyDictionary- Bonitz: Index Aristotelicus
- Liddell-Scott-Jones: A Greek-English lexicon
- κεραία, poet. κεν-αίη, ἡ, (κέρασ)
horn
, Nic.Th.36, Opp.C.3.476. 2. antennae
of the crayfish or of insects, Arist.HA526a6. 532a26. II. anything projecting like a horn
: hence, 1. yard-arm
, A.Eu.557 (lyr.), Th.7.41, IG22.657, 1604.17, PMagd.11.4 (iii B.C.), etc.; κ. καθελέσθαι, ὑφιέναι, i.e.lower sail, Plb.14.10.11, Plu.2.169b; opp. ἐντείνασθαι Call. Fr.anon.
382; ἀπὸ ψιλῆς τῆς κ. 'under bare poles', Luc.Tox.19. b. projecting beam
of a crane, etc., Th.2.76, cf.4.100, IG11(2).161 A90 (Delos, iii B. C.), Ph.Bel.100.18, Plb.8.5.10, Arr.An.2.19.2. c. projecting parts
of the hucklebone, Arist.HA499b30. d. branching stake of wood
, used as a pale
in a palisade, Plb.18.18.7, App.BC4.78. e. horns of the ancilia
, Plu.Num.13. 2. pl., horns
of the moon, Arat.785,790. 3. in writing, apex
of a letter, IG2.4321.10 (iv B.C.), A.D.Synt.28.27, cf. Ev.Matt.5.18, Ev.Luc.16.17, Antyll. ap.Orib.45.57.4; ζυγομαχεῖν περὶ συλλαβῶν καὶ κ. Plu.2.1100a; διὰ πάσης κ. διῆκον showing itself in every word
of a speech, D.H.Din. 7. 4. leg
of a pair of compasses, S.E.M.10.54. 5. projecting spur
of a mountain, Plu.Cat.Ma.13; of the horns
of Europe and Africa at the Straits of Gibraltar, AP4.3b.40 (Agath.); arms
of a harbour, Philostr.VS1.21.2. 6. = κέρασ v. 3, wing
of an army, Hld.9.20. 7. pl., supposed teat-like projections
inside the womb, Diocl.Fr.27; but the Fallopian tubes
, Gal.UP14.11, Ruf.Onom. 194. III. bow made of horn,
AP6.75 (Paul.Sil.).
- William J. Slater: Lexicon to Pindar
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