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|Full diacritics=κνῆκος
|Medium diacritics=κνῆκος
|Low diacritics=κνήκος
|Capitals=ΚΝΗΚΟΣ
|Transliteration A=knē̂kos
|Transliteration B=knēkos
|Transliteration C=knikos
|Beta Code=knh=kos
|Definition=ἡ, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>6.4.5</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>223.4</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="title">PRev.Laws</span> (v. infr.), but ὁ <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>1.13.3</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">CP</span>5.18.4</span>, Dsc. (v. infr.), Gal.6.354, al.:—also κνήκη, ἡ, Sch.<span class="bibl">Theoc.3.5</span>, <span class="bibl">7.16</span> codd.:—<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">safflower, Carthamus tinctorius</b>, <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Acut.</span>64</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Vict.</span>2.54</span>, <span class="bibl">Diocl.Fr.140</span>, <span class="bibl">Anaxandr. 41.56</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>550b27</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>6.1.3</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PRev.Laws</span> 39.5</span>, al. (iii B.C.), Dsc.4.188, Asclep. ap. <span class="bibl">Gal.<span class="title">Nat.Fac.</span>1.13</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> <b class="b3">κ. ἀγρία</b> (ἄγριος Dsc.3.93), of two kinds, <b class="b2">Carthamus leucocaulos</b> and <b class="b2">blessed thistle, Cnicus benedictus</b>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>6.4.5</span>; <b class="b3">πώγωνι θάλλων ὡς τράγος κνήκῳ χλιδᾷς</b> you are as wanton as a goat surfeited with <b class="b2">thistles</b>, S.<span class="title">Ichn.</span>358 (nisi leg. <b class="b3">κνηκῷ</b> 'you swagger with your <b class="b2">yellow</b> (cf. sq.) beard': κνικωι Pap.). (Freq. written <b class="b3">κνίκος</b> or <b class="b3">κνῖκος</b> in codd., as Arist.l.c., <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">CP</span>6.9.3</span>, Gal. ll. cc., 11.612, etc., but always κνηκ- in Papyri, exc. S.<span class="title">Ichn.</span> l.c.; prob. named from its colour, cf. sq.)</span>
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