κνῆκος
κατὰ τὸν δεύτερον, φασί, πλοῦν τὰ ἐλάχιστα ληπτέον τῶν κακῶν → we must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils
English (LSJ)
ἡ, Thphr.HP6.4.5, PCair.Zen.223.4 (iii B.C.), PRev.Laws (v. infr.), but ὁ Thphr.HP1.13.3, CP5.18.4, Dsc. (v. infr.), Gal.6.354, al.:—also κνήκη, ἡ, Sch.Theoc.3.5, 7.16 codd.:—
A safflower, Carthamus tinctorius, Hp.Acut.64, Vict.2.54, Diocl.Fr.140, Anaxandr. 41.56, Arist.HA550b27, Thphr.HP6.1.3, PRev.Laws 39.5, al. (iii B.C.), Dsc.4.188, Asclep. ap. Gal.Nat.Fac.1.13. II κ. ἀγρία (ἄγριος Dsc.3.93), of two kinds, Carthamus leucocaulos and blessed thistle, Cnicus benedictus, Thphr.HP6.4.5; πώγωνι θάλλων ὡς τράγος κνήκῳ χλιδᾷς you are as wanton as a goat surfeited with thistles, S.Ichn.358 (nisi leg. κνηκῷ 'you swagger with your yellow (cf. sq.) beard': κνικωι Pap.). (Freq. written κνίκος or κνῖκος in codd., as Arist.l.c., Thphr.CP6.9.3, Gal. ll. cc., 11.612, etc., but always κνηκ- in Papyri, exc. S.Ichn. l.c.; prob. named from its colour, cf. sq.)
German (Pape)
[Seite 1460] ὁ, Safflor, eine distelartige Pflanze, deren Blume als Lab gebraucht wurde, um die Milch zum Gerinnen zu bringen; Arist. H. A. 5, 19; Theophr. u. A.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
κνῆκος: ἡ, Λατ. cnecus ἢ cnicus, φυτόν τι ἐκ τοῦ εἴδους τοῦ σκολύμου ἢ ἀκάνθου, carthamus tinctorius, οὗ τὰ φύλλα ἐχρησίμευον ὡς πυτία πρὸς πῆξιν γάλακτος εἰς κατασκευὴν τυροῦ, Ἱππ. π. Διαίτ. Ὀξ. 394, Ἀναξανδρ. «Πρωτ.» 1. 55, Ἀριστ. π. τὰ Ζ. Ἱστ. 5. 19, 2, Θεοφρ. π. Φυτ. Ἱστ. 6. 1, 3.
