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|Definition=ᾰκος, ὁ, <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[raven]], [[Corvus corax]] (not in Hom.); <b class="b3">πάντα τάδ' ἐν κοράκεσσι καὶ ἐν φθόρῳ</b> 'food for [[crows]]', <span class="bibl">Thgn.833</span>; κόρακες ὣς ἄκραντα γαρύετον Διὸς πρὸς ὄρνιχα θεῖον <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>2.87</span>; ἐπὶ σώματος δίκαν κόρακος… σταθεῖσα <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1473</span>(lyr.); κόρακες ὥστε βωμῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Supp.</span>751</span> (lyr.); κόραξι καὶ λύκοις χαρίζεσθαι <span class="bibl">Luc. <span class="title">Tim.</span>8</span>; in imprecations, <b class="b3">ἐς κόρακας</b> 'go and be hanged', <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>852</span>, <span class="bibl">982</span>; βάλλ' ἐς κ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Nu.</span>133</span>; ἀπόφερ' ἐς κ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Pax</span>1221</span>; <b class="b3">οὐκ ἐς κ. ἐρρήσετε</b>; ib.<span class="bibl">500</span>; ἔρρ' ἐς κ. <span class="bibl">Pherecr.70</span>; πλείτω ἐς κ. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>1314</span>; <b class="b3">οὐκ ἐς κ. ἀποφθερεῖ</b>; <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Nu.</span> 789</span>; ἐς κ. οἰχήσεται <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">V.</span>51</span>; ἐξελῶ σ' ἐς κ. ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Nu.</span>123</span>; ἐς κ. ἔρρειν ἐκ τῆς Ἀττικῆς <span class="bibl">Alex.94.5</span>: as a prophet of bad weather, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Fr.</span>253</span>, Thphr <span class="title">Sign.</span>16, Plu.2.129a, etc.; of fair weather, <span class="bibl">Arat.1003</span>, <span class="title">Gp.</span>1.2.6, etc.; <b class="b3">λευκὸς κ</b>., prov. of something unheard of, <span class="title">AP</span>11.417, Luc.<span class="title">Epigr.</span>43; but white ravens are mentioned by <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">HA</span>519a6</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> [[cormorant]], [[Phalacrocorax carbo]], ib.<span class="bibl">593b18</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> the constellation <span class="title">Corvus</span>, <span class="bibl">Arat.449</span>, <span class="bibl">Ptol.<span class="title">Tetr.</span>27</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> title of a grade in the mysteries of Mithras, <span class="bibl">Porph.<span class="title">Abst.</span>4.16</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> [[anything hooked]] or <b class="b2">pointed like a raven's beak</b>, cf. κορώνη ''ΙΙ'', </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">1</span> [[engine for grappling ships]], Plb <span class="bibl">1.22.3</span>, <span class="bibl">App.<span class="title">BC</span>5.106</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">b</span> [[siege-engine]], <span class="bibl">Ph.<span class="title">Bel.</span>100.18</span>, <span class="bibl">D.S.17.44</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b2">hooked door-handle</b>, <span class="bibl">Posidipp.7</span>, <span class="title">AP</span>11.203, <span class="bibl">Alex.Aphr.<span class="title">in SE</span>25.17</span>; [[hook]] on a machine, <span class="bibl">Hero <span class="title">Aut.</span> 15.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Orib.49.4.16</span>, <span class="bibl">Ath.Mech.36.10</span>, <span class="bibl">Bito 50.9</span>: generally, [[hook]], Sammelb.1.24 (iii A. D.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> [[instrument of torture]], <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Nec.</span>11</span> (s.v.l.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> = [[κατακλείς]], <span class="bibl">Hero <span class="title">Bel.</span>79.11</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> [[point]] of a surgical knife, σμιλαρίου Heliod. ap. <span class="bibl">Orib.44.10.5</span>; [[κατιάδος]] Id. ap. Sch.<span class="bibl">Orib. 44.14.4</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">6</span> [[cock's bill]], Hsch. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> [[tub-fish]] (cf. [[κορακῖνος]]), Diph.Siph. ap. <span class="bibl">Ath.8.356a</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> a plaster, Philum. ap. <span class="bibl">Aët.5.127</span>, Orib.<span class="title">Fr.</span>84. (Cf. [[κορώνη]], Lat. [[corvus]], [[cornix]], etc.)</span>