Khabrias

Khaganos

Khaganos: Khaganos gave his oaths to the winds to carry and, lifting up the trumpet dear to war, gathered his powers together.(1)

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1.An unidentified quotation.

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Khaia

Khaia (genuine): Used for 'good'. As opposed to 'gaping'. Aristophanes used the term: "she is good, though Corinthian"(1)--that is, a prostitute, since Corinth was full of prostitutes.(2)

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1. Lysistrata, 90-91.

2. The cult of Aphrodite in Corinth involved so-called sacred prostitution (OCD3 points out the modernity of the term). Pindar records the dedication of a large number of them at fr. 122.

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Khalasda

Khalasda (hail): Cloud, frozen and twice-washed .(1) by the wind and carried down to earth. But snow is moisture, frozen out of a cloud. Hailstorms are freezings of the moisture overhead in the air, above the earth--in some small part it is snow and in some, hail. But below on the earth it is frost to a lesser extent, but more is ice. But falling snow is not a freezing, but rather the same quality in respect to another kind of appearance. Aristophanes says, "Not apart from hailstorms, o wicked Euripides.".(2) He uses 'hail' for 'violent words'.

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1.. There is disagreement in the MSS here: the correct reading may be 'thrown through the air'.

2. Frogs, 852.

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Khalasdai

Khalasdai (He has hailstones): That is to say, 'he is loose' (khalaros). "If he is loose in the anus."(1) But it is also a disease in beasts, which escapes notice when they are living, but is plain among the dead when they are cut up. The hailstone is mixed up in their flesh and has grown into it. Butchers usually open the mouths of porkers with a peg after they slaughter them to determine if they have these hailstones. The hailstone is entirely a disease of pigs.

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1.See Aristophanes, Knights 381. The author is probably incorrect in his interpretation of Aristophanes here: the passage likely refers to the disease detailed here immediately below (so LSJ).

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Khalara

Khalara Loose: Synonymous with 'khauna'. "I imagine you like to wear loose shoes."(1) And his heart was open and gentle to those in need, even to someone of those men who were opposed to him.

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1.See Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 263.

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Khalasai

Khalasai (to loosen): to be loosed (ekluthenai), to be loose (khaunothenai). [Water falling from the sky](1) For foreigners: to loosen bowstrings, and to soften the horns of bows,(2) and to take away the force and the accuracy of the archery.

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1. This seems to be an intrusion from the lemma 'Khalasda' above.

2. Ancient bows were often fashioned from two joined horns.

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