κίσσηρις

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ἄμμες δὲ γ' ἐσσόμεσθα πολλῷ κάρρονες → and we shall be better by far | we shall be sometime mightier men by far than both | sometime we shall become much better than you | so we shall be, and braver far

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German (Pape)

[Seite 1442] εως, ἡ, od. richtiger κίσηρις, wie Dichterstellen beweisen, Ar. fr. 309, Alexis bei Ath. IX, 383 d, Phani. 3 (VI, 295); bei Theophr. auch gen. κισσήριδος; Bimsstein, Theophr., Diosc.; vielleicht von κίς, weil er durchlöchert, gleichsam zernagt ist.