chromis
From LSJ
ἔγνω δὲ φώρ τε φῶρα καὶ λύκος λύκον → the thief knows the thief and the wolf knows the wolf, and thief knows thief and wolf his fellow wolf, set a thief to catch a thief
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
chrŏmis: is, m. or f., = χρόμις,
I a seafish: immunda, Ov. Hal. 121; Plin. 10, 70, 89, § 193: chromin, qui, etc., id. 32, 11, 54, § 153; 9, 16, 24, § 57.—
II Chrŏmis, nom. propr. m., of a satyr, Verg. E. 6, 13; of a Trojan, acc. Chromim, id. A. 11, 675; of a Centaur, acc. Chromin, Ov. M. 12, 333 al.
