κορώνη: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, a sea-bird, possibly <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[shearwater]], [[Puffinus Kuhlii]] or [[Puffinus anglorum]], τανύγλωσσοί τε κορῶναι εἰνάλιαι <span class="bibl">Od.5.66</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">12.418</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>593b13</span>, <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Sign.</span>16</span>, <span class="bibl">Arat.950</span>, <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>15.23</span>; λάροι καὶ αἴθυιαι καὶ κ. <span class="bibl">Arr.<span class="title">Peripl.M.Eux.</span>32</span> (but confounded with λάροι and αἴθυιαι by Sch.<span class="bibl">Od.1.441</span>, cf. Hsch.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[crow]] (including the [[hooded crow]], [[Corvus cornix]], and prob. also the [[rook]], [[Corvus corone]]), μή τοι ἐφεζομένη κρώξῃ λακέρυζα κ. <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>747</span>; συκῆ πετραίη πολλὰς βόσκουσα κ. <span class="bibl">Archil.19</span>: distinguished from [[κολοιός]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>5</span> (cf. <span class="bibl">7</span>); ἐννέα τοι ζώει γενεὰς λακέρυζα κ. ἀνδρῶν γηράντων <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Fr.</span>171</span>; πέντ' ἀνδρῶν γενεὰς ζώει λακέρυζα κ. <span class="bibl">Ar. <span class="title">Av.</span>609</span>; <b class="b3">πολιαὶ κ</b>. ib.<span class="bibl">967</span>; <b class="b3">κορώνην δευτέραν ἀναπλήσας</b> having lived out twice a full [[crow's-age]], <span class="bibl">Babr.46.9</span>; ὑπὲρ τὰς κορώνας βεβιωκώς <span class="bibl">Poll.2.16</span>: [[proverb|prov.]], <b class="b3">κορώνη σκορπίον [ἥρπασε</b>] '[[caught a Tartar]]', <span class="title">AP</span> 12.92 (Mel.), cf.<span class="bibl">Zen.4.57</span>, Hsch., Suid.; invoked at weddings, <span class="bibl">Ael. <span class="title">NA</span>3.9</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">κ. Δαυλία</b>, = [[ἀηδών]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Fr.</span>716</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> anything [[hooked]] or [[curved]], like a [[crow]]'s [[bill]], </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> [[door-handle]], θύρην δ' ἐπέρυσσε κορώνῃ ἀργυρέῃ <span class="bibl">Od.1.441</span>; ἱμάντα… ἀπέλυσε κορώνης <span class="bibl">21.46</span>; χρυσέη κ. <span class="bibl">7.90</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Poll.7.107</span>, al. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[tip of a bow]], on which the [[bow]]-[[string]] was hooked, πᾶν δ' εὖ λειήνας χρυσέην ἐπέθηκε κ. <span class="bibl">Il.4.111</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Od.21.138</span>: generally, [[end]], [[tip]], <span class="bibl">Artem.5.65</span>: metaph., v. infr.<span class="bibl">7</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[curved stern of a ship]], <span class="bibl">Arat.345</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> [[tip]] of the [[plough]]-[[pole]] ([[ἱστοβοεύς]]), upon which the [[yoke]] is [[hook]]ed or tied, <span class="bibl">A.R.3.1318</span>, <span class="bibl">Poll.1.252</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> [[coronoid process]] of the [[ulna]], <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Art.</span>18</span>, <span class="bibl">Gal.<span class="title">UP</span>2.14</span>, Id.18(2).617; of the [[jaw]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">UP</span>11.20</span>, <span class="bibl">18(1).426</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">6</span> kind of [[crown]], Hsch. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">7</span> <b class="b3">κ. παννυχική</b> [[crown]], i.e. [[culmination]], of a [[festival]], Posidipp. ap. <span class="bibl">Ath. 10.414d</span>; cf. [[μέχρι]] τῆς κ. <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Fr.</span>2.5</span> P.: generally, <b class="b3">χρυσῷ βίῳ</b> (with play on [[βιῷ]]) χρυσῆν κορώνην ἐπιθεῖναι <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Peregr.</span>33</span>, v. supr. <span class="bibl">11.2</span>.</span>