κόρος

κόρος (A), ὁ,

A satiety, surfeit,

αἶψά τε φυλόπιδος πέλεται κ. ἀνθρώποισιν Il.19.221

;

αἰψηρὸς δὲ κ. κρυεροῖο γόοιο Od.4.103

;

πάντων μὲν κ. ἐστί, καὶ ὕπνου καὶ φιλότητος Il.13.636

;

ἀπὸ κ. ἀμβλύνει αἰανὴς ἐλπίδας Pi.P.1.82

;

κόρον ἔχει μέλι Id.N.7.52

; κ. ἔχειν δακρύων, κακῶν, E.Alc. 185, Ph.1750 (lyr.); also

κόρον ἡ τούτων συνουσία ἔχει Pl.Phdr.240c

;

ἐς κ. ἰέναι τινός Philox.2.38

;

ἄχρι κόρου D. 19.187

;

ἐς κόρον Luc. Merc.Cond.26

, Gal.15.500, Vict.Att.8; πρὸς ἡδονήν τε καὶ κ. gormandizing, Hp.VM14: in mystical sense, opp. χρησμοσύνη, Heraclit. 65.

2 the consequence of satiety, insolence, Pi.O.2.95, I.3.2; πρὸς κόρον insolently, A.Ag.382 (lyr.): freq. as cause or consequence of

ὕβρις, τίκτει τοι κόρος ὕβριν, ὅταν κακῷ ὄλβος ἕπηται ἀνθρώπῳ Thgn. 153

, cf. Sol.8;

ὕβριν κόρου ματέρα Pi.O.13.10

; κόρον, ὕβριος υἱόν Bacis ap.Hdt.8.77. (Cf. κορέννυμι.)

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κόρος (B), ὁ, [dialect] Ion. [full] κοῦρος, as always in Hom., Pi., and lyr. passages of Trag. (exc. E.Alc.904), sts. in late Gr., Rev.Et.Gr.42.247 ([place name] Varna); [dialect] Dor. [full] κῶρος Theoc.15.120:—

A boy, lad (even before birth,

ὃν . . γαστέρι μήτηρ κοῦρον ἐόντα φέροι Il.6.59

, cf. Call.Del.212),

κοῦρος πρῶτον ὑπηνήτης Il.24.347

;

πρωθῆβαι Od.8.262

;

τότε κοῦρος ἔα, νῦν αὖτέ με γῆρας ὀπάζει Il.4.321

;

σὺν κόροις τε καὶ κόραις A.Fr.43

: in mock Trag.,

Οἰδίπου . . παῖδε, διπτύχω κόρω Ar.Fr.558

: rarein Prose, Pl.Lg.772a; male infant,

ἔτεκε κόρον Conon 33.3

, cf. IG42(1).121.5 (Epid., iv B. C.); in Il. of warriors, 9.86, 12.196, al.; κοῦροι Βοιωτῶν, Ἀθηναίων, Ἀχαιῶν, 2.510,551,562;

λεκτοὶ Ἀθηναίων κ. E.Supp.356

; also, of servants waiting at sacrifices and feasts, Il.1.470, al.; at Sparta, κόροι, = ἱππεῖς, Archyt. ap. Stob.4.1.138.

2 with gen. of pr. n., son, Od.19.523, etc.;

Θησέως κ. S.Ph.562

, cf. Tr.644 (lyr.);

τῶν ὀλωλότων κόροι E.Supp.107

; Κεκροπιδῶν κόροι, periphr. like παῖδες, Eub.10.6.

3 puppet, doll, used in Magic, S.Fr.536.

II shoot, sprout, of a tree,

κόρους πλεκτοὺς . . μυρρίνης Lysipp.9

, cf. Hp. ap. Gal. 19.113, EM276.28, Hsch.; cf. κοῦρος (B).

III for [comp] Comp. v. κουρότερος. (Acc. to Eust.582.20, al., from κείρω, of one who has cut his hair short on emerging from boyhood: but κόρ (ϝ) ος (masc. of κόρη) perh. cogn. with Lat. Ceres, Cerus, cresco.)

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κόρος (C), ὁ,

A besom, Hsch.

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κόρος (D), ὁ, Hebr.

A kor, a dry measure containing, acc. to J.AJ 15.9.2, 10 [dialect] Att. medimni (about 120 gallons), LXX Nu.11.32, al., Ev.Luc.16.7, cf. Eupolem. ap. Alex.Polyh.18.