πλακοῦς
From LSJ
τὰ πρὸ Εὐκλείδου ἐξετάζειν → investigate what happened before the flood, investigate what happened in the distant past, investigate what happened before Euclid, investigate what happened before the year of Euclid
English (LSJ)
οῦντος, ὁ, voc.
A πλακοῦ Theodos.Can.p.3 H.:—contr. from πλακόεις, flat cake (perh. shaped like the mallow-seed, Phan.Hist.29), freq. in Com., πλακοῦντος κύκλος Ar.Ach.1125, cf. Alex.22 (pl., hex.); π. ἄρτος Ath.14.645d: also resolved πλακόεις, AP6.155 (Theodorid.). II the seed of the mallow, which seeds children call cheeses, Phan.Hist.29, Gal.10.113.
German (Pape)
[Seite 624] οῦντος, ὁ, zsgz. aus πλακόεις, vgl. Ath. XIV, 644, Kuchen, wegen der breiten Gestalt, Ar. oft, πλακοῦς πέπεπται, Pax 834, ὀπτᾶν, Ran. 508; oft bei Ath. XIV.
