κωδύα
From LSJ
τίς γὰρ ἁδονᾶς ἄτερ θνατῶν βίος ποθεινὸς ἢ ποία τυραννίς; τᾶς ἄτερ οὐδὲ θεῶν ζηλωτὸς αἰών → What human life is desirable without pleasure, or what lordly power? Without it not even the life of the gods is enviable.
English (LSJ)
ἡ,
A head, i.e. capsule, of the poppy, Thphr.HP9.12.4, Damocr. ap. Gal.13.40, Dsc.4.63 (v.l. -ίαις), 64, Sor.1.120 (τῇ διακωδίων cod.), Ruf.Ren.Ves.1.15; imitated as an ornament of ἧλοι, IG 22.1457.14, 1544.38, al.; head, i.e.fruit, of the Nile water-lily, Nymphaea stellata, Thphr.HP4.8.10; of the Egyptian bean, Nelumbium speciosum, ib.7. [κωδύᾱ acc. to Hdn.Gr.1.302, and so in Damocr. l.c., but κώδυα in Ar.Fr.117 ap.Harp.Epit., Phot., cf. sq.]
