κόρος
ἀσκέειν, περὶ τὰ νουσήματα, δύο, ὠφελέειν, ἢ μὴ βλάπτειν → strive, with regard to diseases, for two things — to do good, or to do no harm | as to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm
English (LSJ)
(A), ὁ,
A satiety, surfeit, αἶψά τε φυλόπιδος πέλεται κ. ἀνθρώποισιν Il.19.221; αἰψηρὸς δὲ κ. κρυεροῖο γόοιο Od.4.103; πάντων μὲν κ. ἐστί, καὶ ὕπνου καὶ φιλότητος Il.13.636; ἀπὸ κ. ἀμβλύνει αἰανὴς ἐλπίδας Pi.P.1.82; κόρον ἔχει μέλι Id.N.7.52; κ. ἔχειν δακρύων, κακῶν, E.Alc. 185, Ph.1750 (lyr.); also κόρον ἡ τούτων συνουσία ἔχει Pl.Phdr.240c; ἐς κ. ἰέναι τινός Philox.2.38; ἄχρι κόρου D. 19.187; ἐς κόρον Luc. Merc.Cond.26, Gal.15.500, Vict.Att.8; πρὸς ἡδονήν τε καὶ κ. gormandizing, Hp.VM14: in mystical sense, opp. χρησμοσύνη, Heraclit. 65. 2 the consequence of satiety, insolence, Pi.O.2.95, I.3.2; πρὸς κόρον insolently, A.Ag.382 (lyr.): freq. as cause or consequence of ὕβρις, τίκτει τοι κόρος ὕβριν, ὅταν κακῷ ὄλβος ἕπηται ἀνθρώπῳ Thgn. 153, cf. Sol.8; ὕβριν κόρου ματέρα Pi.O.13.10; κόρον, ὕβριος υἱόν Bacis ap.Hdt.8.77. (Cf. κορέννυμι.)
κόρος (B), ὁ, Ion. κοῦρος, as always in Hom., Pi., and lyr. passages of Trag. (exc. E.Alc.904), sts. in late Gr., Rev.Et.Gr.42.247 (Varna); Dor. κῶρος Theoc.15.120:—
A boy, lad (even before birth, ὃν . . γαστέρι μήτηρ κοῦρον ἐόντα φέροι Il.6.59, cf. Call.Del.212), κοῦρος πρῶτον ὑπηνήτης Il.24.347; πρωθῆβαι Od.8.262; τότε κοῦρος ἔα, νῦν αὖτέ με γῆρας ὀπάζει Il.4.321; σὺν κόροις τε καὶ κόραις A.Fr.43: in mock Trag., Οἰδίπου . . παῖδε, διπτύχω κόρω Ar.Fr.558: rarein Prose, Pl.Lg.772a; male infant, ἔτεκε κόρον Conon 33.3, cf. IG42(1).121.5 (Epid., iv B. C.); in Il. of warriors, 9.86, 12.196, al.; κοῦροι Βοιωτῶν, Ἀθηναίων, Ἀχαιῶν, 2.510,551,562; λεκτοὶ Ἀθηναίων κ. E.Supp.356; also, of servants waiting at sacrifices and feasts, Il.1.470, al.; at Sparta, κόροι, = ἱππεῖς, Archyt. ap. Stob.4.1.138. 2 with gen. of pr. n., son, Od.19.523, etc.; Θησέως κ. S.Ph.562, cf. Tr.644 (lyr.); τῶν ὀλωλότων κόροι E.Supp.107; Κεκροπιδῶν κόροι, periphr. like παῖδες, Eub.10.6. 3 puppet, doll, used in Magic, S.Fr.536. II shoot, sprout, of a tree, κόρους πλεκτοὺς . . μυρρίνης Lysipp.9, cf. Hp. ap. Gal. 19.113, EM276.28, Hsch.; cf. κοῦρος (B). III for Comp. v. κουρότερος. (Acc. to Eust.582.20, al., from κείρω, of one who has cut his hair short on emerging from boyhood: but κόρ (ϝ) ος (masc. of κόρη) perh. cogn. with Lat. Ceres, Cerus, cresco.)
κόρος (C), ὁ,
A besom, Hsch.
κόρος (D), ὁ, Hebr.
A kor, a dry measure containing, acc. to J.AJ 15.9.2, 10 Att. medimni (about 120 gallons), LXX Nu.11.32, al., Ev.Luc.16.7, cf. Eupolem. ap. Alex.Polyh.18.
