κάλλιχθυς
πολλὰ μεταξὺ πέλει κύλικος καὶ χείλεος ἄκρου → there is many a slip twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip
English (LSJ)
υος, ὁ,
A beauty-fish, = ἀνθίας, Arist.Fr.316, cf. Hedyl. ap.Ath.8.344f, Numen. ap. eund.7.295b; but distd. from it by Dorion ib.282e, cf. Opp.H.3.335.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
κάλλιχθυς: -υος, ὁ, εἶδος ἰχθύος, ὅστις ἐκαλεῖτο καὶ ἀνθίας καὶ καλλιώνυμος, Δωρίων παρ’ Ἀθην. 282C, «Ἀριστοτέλης δὲ καὶ καρχαρόδοντα εἶναι τὸν κάλλιχθυν σαρκοφάγον τε καὶ συναγελαζόμενον» αὐτόθι D, (Ἀριστ. Ἀποσπ. 297), «Δωρίων δὲ ἐν τῷ περὶ ἰχθύων διαφέρειν φησίν ἀνθίαν καὶ κάλλιχθυν» Ἀθήν. 282Ε. - Περὶ τοῦ τονισμοῦ τοῦ κάλλιχθυς ἴδε Ἀρκάδ. σ. 92, 6.
Greek Monolingual
κάλλιχθυς, -ίχθυος, ὁ (Α)
είδος ωραίου ψαριού.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < καλλ(ι)- + ἰχθῦς].
