κνῆκος
νεκρὸν ἐάν ποτ' ἴδηις καὶ μνήματα κωφὰ παράγηις κοινὸν ἔσοπτρον ὁρᾶις· ὁ θανὼν οὕτως προσεδόκα → whenever you see a body dead, or pass by silent tombs, you look into the mirror of all men's destiny: the dead man expected nothing else | if you ever see a corpse or walk by quiet graves, that's when you look into the mirror we all share: the dead expected this
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.
