κνῆκος

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Ἐπ' ἀνδρὶ δυστυχοῦντι μὴ πλάσῃς κακόν → Miseri miseriae ne quid affingas mali → Vermehre nicht dem Unglücksraben noch sein Leid

Menander, Monostichoi, 145
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Full diacritics: κνῆκος Medium diacritics: κνῆκος Low diacritics: κνήκος Capitals: ΚΝΗΚΟΣ
Transliteration A: knē̂kos Transliteration B: knēkos Transliteration C: knikos Beta Code: knh=kos

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.