κολοκύνθη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=<span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>591a16</span>, al. (v.l. -τη), <span class="bibl">Sor.1.124</span>, etc.; Att. κολοκύντη, ἡ (cf. Phryn.401), Thphr.1.13.3, 7.1.2, al., <span class="bibl">Mnesim.4.30</span> (v.l. -τα<b class="b3">, -θα</b>), also <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Vict.</span>2.54</span>; acc. -την <span class="bibl">Epicr.11.16</span>, <span class="title">PMag.Leid.V.</span> 12.25, etc.:—later κολόκυντᾰ (acc. -ᾰν) <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>300.3</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Jn.</span>4.7</span> cod.A, <span class="title">Gp.</span>12.19.7, <span class="bibl">Artem.1.67</span> (v.l.), Luc.<span class="title">VH</span>2.37 (v.l.), Hsch.s.v.[[κυκύϊζα]]; gen. -της <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>292.132</span>, <span class="bibl">319</span> (iii B.C.); acc. pl. -τας <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PSI</span>6.553.14</span> (iii B.C.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>1120.13</span> (i B.C.); κολόκυνθᾰ <span class="title">PSakk.</span> in <span class="title">Rev.Egypt.</span>3.123 (iii B.C., also -τα ib.120, 122), LXX l.c., <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span>923a14</span> codd., Dsc.2.134, 4.176, Luc.l.c., Hdn.Gr.1.253, v.l. for -θη (nom. sg.) in Gal.6.794, but nom. -θη, acc. -θην ib.561, al. codd.; nom. pl. -θαι <span class="title">Edict.Diocl.</span>6.26, 27:—<span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[round gourd]], [[Cucurbita maxima]], Alc.<span class="title">Oxy.</span>1788 <span class="title">Fr.</span>4.6 (Aeol. acc. pl. -ταις), <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Morb.</span>2.67</span>, <span class="bibl">69</span> (in acc. -θην, v.l. -την), <span class="bibl">Hermipp.79</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Fr.</span>569.6</span>, <span class="bibl">Metag.16</span> (-θης codd.), Diocl.<span class="title">Frr.</span>125, 141, Diph.Siph. et Mnesith. ap. <span class="bibl">Ath.2.59b</span>; <b class="b3">κ. Ἰνδική</b> Menodorus ib.<span class="bibl">59a</span>, <span class="bibl">Ph.<span class="title">Bel.</span>89.43</span>; <b class="b3">κ. ἀγρία</b> [[colocynth]], [[Citrullus]] <span class="title">Colocynthis</span>, Dsc.l.c.: symbolic of health, from its juicy nature, ὑγιώτερον κολοκύντας <span class="bibl">Epich.154</span>, <span class="bibl">Sophr.34</span>; as a lily was of death, <b class="b3">ἢ κολοκύντην ἢ κρίνον</b> [[living]] or dead, <span class="bibl">Diph.98</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Men.934</span>:—for <b class="b3">λημᾶν κολοκύνταις</b>, v.[[λημάω]].</span>