κορώνη

κορών-η, ἡ, a sea-bird, possibly

A shearwater, Puffinus Kuhlii or P. anglorum,

τανύγλωσσοί τε κορῶναι εἰνάλιαι Od.5.66

, cf. 12.418, Arist.HA593b13, Thphr.Sign.16, Arat.950, Ael.NA15.23;

λάροι καὶ αἴθυιαι καὶ κ. Arr.Peripl.M.Eux.32

(but confounded with λ. and αἴ. by Sch.Od.1.441, cf. Hsch.).

2 crow (including the hooded crow, Corvus cornix, and prob. also the rook, C. corone),

μή τοι ἐφεζομένη κρώξῃ λακέρυζα κ. Hes.Op.747

;

συκῆ πετραίη πολλὰς βόσκουσα κ. Archil.19

: distd. from κολοιός, Ar.Av.5 (cf. 7);

ἐννέα τοι ζώει γενεὰς λακέρυζα κ. ἀνδρῶν γηράντων Hes.Fr.171

;

πέντ' ἀνδρῶν γενεὰς ζώει λακέρυζα κ. Ar. Av.609

; πολιαὶ κ. ib.967; κορώνην δευτέραν ἀναπλήσας having lived out twice a full crow's-age, Babr.46.9;

ὑπὲρ τὰς κορώνας βεβιωκώς Poll.2.16

: prov., κορώνη σκορπίον [ἥρπασε] 'caught a Tartar', AP 12.92 (Mel.), cf.Zen.4.57, Hsch., Suid.; invoked at weddings, Ael. NA3.9.

3 κ. Δαυλία, = ἀηδών, Ar.Fr.716.

II anything hooked or curved, like a crow's bill,

1 door-handle,

θύρην δ' ἐπέρυσσε κορώνῃ ἀργυρέῃ Od.1.441

;

ἱμάντα . . ἀπέλυσε κορώνης 21.46

;

χρυσέη κ. 7.90

, cf. Poll.7.107, al.

2 tip of a bow, on which the bow-string was hooked,

πᾶν δ' εὖ λειήνας χρυσέην ἐπέθηκε κ. Il.4.111

, cf. Od.21.138: generally, end, tip, Artem.5.65: metaph., v. infr.7.

3 curved stern of a ship, Arat.345.

4 tip of the plough-pole ([etym.] ἱστοβοεύς), upon which the yoke is hooked or tied, A.R.3.1318, Poll.1.252.

5 coronoid process of the ulna, Hp.Art.18, Gal.UP2.14, Id.18(2).617; of the jaw, Id.UP11.20, 18(1).426.

6 kind of crown, Hsch.

7 κ. παννυχική crown, i.e. culmination, of a festival, Posidipp. ap. Ath. 10.414d; cf.

μέχρι τῆς κ. Call.Fr.2.5

P.: generally, χρυσῷ βίῳ (with play on βιῷ)

χρυσῆν κορώνην ἐπιθεῖναι Luc.Peregr.33

, v. supr. 11.2.