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|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[ram]], <span class="bibl">Od.9.447</span>, <span class="bibl">461</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.2.42</span>, etc.; κριοὶ ἄγριοι <span class="bibl">Id.4.192</span>: [[proverb|prov.]], <b class="b3">κριὸς τροφεῖα ἀπέτεισεν</b>, of ingratitude, because a [[ram]] butts at those who have brought him up, <span class="bibl">Zen.4.63</span>, Suid., Hsch.; κριοὺς ἐκγεννᾶν τέκνα <span class="bibl">Eup.99</span>; <b class="b3">κριοῦ διακονία</b>, of [[thankless]] [[service]], Suid., Hsch.; <b class="b3">τὸν κριὸν ὡς ἐπέχθη</b> the '[[shearing of the ram]]', in allusion to the ode of [[Simonides]] in honour of [[Crius]] of Aegina, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>1356</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[battering ram]], <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>7.4.1</span>, <span class="title">IG</span>22.468, <span class="bibl">Plb.1.48.9</span>, <span class="bibl">Ath.Mech.14.1</span>, <span class="bibl">J. <span class="title">BJ</span>3.7.19</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> the [[constellation]] <span class="title">[[Aries]]</span>, Eudox. ap. <span class="bibl">Hipparch. 1.2.13</span>, <span class="bibl">Euc.<span class="title">Phaen.</span>p.6</span> M., <span class="bibl">Arat.238</span>, <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">AJ</span>3.10.5</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> a [[seamonster]], <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>9.49</span>, <span class="bibl">15.2</span>, <span class="bibl">Opp.<span class="title">H.</span>1.372</span>, <span class="bibl">5.33</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> kind of [[mussel]], <span class="bibl">Hegesand.36</span> ([[κρεῖος]] cod. A Ath.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> [[volute]] on the [[Corinthian]] [[capital]], [[twisted]] like a ram's [[horn]], Hsch. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">V</span> kind of [[ship]], <span class="bibl">Poll.1.83</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">VI</span> part of an [[irrigation]]-[[system]], dub. sens. in <span class="bibl"><span class="title">BGU</span>14iii9</span> (iii A. D.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">VII</span> a [[variety]] of [[ἐρέβινθος]], <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>8.5.1</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">PCair.Zen.</span>192.8</span> (iii B. C.), Dsc.2.104, Gal.6.533: misspelt [[κρεῖος]] in <span class="bibl">Sophil.8</span>: Lat. [[cicer arietinum]], <span class="bibl">Petron.35</span>, etc.; [[est enim arietino capiti simile]], <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>18.124</span>. (Prob. cogn. with [[κέρας]].)</span>