κέγχρος
Sunt verba voces quibus hunc lenire dolorem possis, magnam morbi deponere partem → Words will avail the wretched mind to ease and much abate the dismal black disease.
English (LSJ)
ὁ (also ἡ, Arist.Ph.250a20, Dieuch. ap. Orib.4.7.15, Glauc. ap.POxy.1802.42, Dsc.2.97, Gal.6.791, Jul.Or.3.112a, Iamb.VP24.106),
A millet, Panicum miliaceum, usu. in pl., Hes.Sc.398, Hdt.4.17, Hp.Acut.21, X.An.1.2.22, etc.: sg., Hecat.154 J., Hdt.1.193, Thphr. HP1.11.2, al., OGI55.15 (Telmessus, iii B.C.); of a single grain, Hdt.3.100, Plot.6.3.11, prob. in Sapph.Supp.1.13:—also κέρχνος, Anaxandr.41.27, Gal.18(1).574; cf. κέρχνωμα, κέρχνη. II anything in small grains: 1 spawn of fish, Hdt.2.93. 2 small beads, Ath.12.525e. 3 speck, sty in the eye, Adam.1.11, al. III = κεγχρίας 11 (q.v.), Dsc.Ther.15. IV small kind of diamond, Plin.HN37.57.
