κνῆκος
ψυχῆς ἀγῶνα τὸν προκείμενον πέρι δώσων → to stand the appointed trial for his life, to stand the appointed struggle for life and death
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.)
