κολοκύνθη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Arist.HA591a16, al. ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] -τη), Sor.1.124, etc.; Att. [[κολοκύντη]], ἡ (cf. Phryn.401), Thphr.1.13.3, 7.1.2, al., Mnesim.4.30 ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] -τα, -θα), also Hp.Vict.2.54; acc. -την Epicr.11.16, PMag.Leid.V. 12.25, etc.:—later κολόκυντᾰ (acc. -ᾰν) PCair.Zen.300.3 (iii B.C.), LXX Jn.4.7 cod.A, Gp.12.19.7, Artem.1.67 ([[varia lectio|v.l.]]), Luc.VH2.37 ([[varia lectio|v.l.]]), Hsch. s.v. [[κυκύϊζα]]; gen. -της PCair.Zen.292.132, 319 (iii B.C.); acc. pl. -τας PSI6.553.14 (iii B.C.), BGU1120.13 (i B.C.); κολόκυνθᾰ PSakk. in Rev.Egypt.3.123 (iii B.C., also -τα ib.120, 122), [[LXX]] [[l.c.]], Arist.Pr.923a14 codd., Dsc.2.134, 4.176, Luc.l.c., Hdn.Gr.1.253, [[varia lectio|v.l.]] for -θη (nom. sg.) in Gal.6.794, but nom. -θη, acc. -θην ib.561, al. codd.; nom. pl. -θαι Edict.Diocl.6.26, 27:—[[round gourd]], [[Cucurbita maxima]], Alc.Oxy.1788 Fr.4.6 (Aeol. acc. pl. -ταις), Hp.Morb.2.67, 69 (in acc. -θην, [[varia lectio|v.l.]] -την), Hermipp.79, Ar.Fr.569.6, Metag.16 (-θης codd.), Diocl.Frr.125, 141, Diph.Siph. et Mnesith. ap. Ath.2.59b; κολοκύνθη Ἰνδική Menodorus ib.59a, Ph.Bel.89.43; [[κολοκύνθη ἀγρία]] = [[colocynth]], [[Citrullus colocynthis]], Dsc.l.c.: symbolic of health, from its juicy nature, ὑγιώτερον κολοκύντας Epich.154, Sophr.34; as a lily was of death, ἢ κολοκύντην ἢ κρίνον = [[living]] or [[dead]], Diph.98, cf. Men.934:—for λημᾶν κολοκύνταις, v. [[λημάω]].