A.“κάρηνον” 2.87); in derivs. the α_ prevails: (v. κάρα A):—head, mostly in pl. (as always in Hom.), ἀνδρῶν κάρηνα, periphr. for ἄνδρες, Il.11.500; νεκύων ἀμενηνὰ κ. Od.10.521, etc.; βοῶν ἴφθιμα κ. Il.23.260; ἵππων ξανθὰ κ. 9.407: metaph., of mountain peaks, Οὐλύμποιο κ. 1.44, etc.; of towns, “πολλάων πολίων κατέλυσε κάρηνα” 2.117, 9.24; Μυκάλης αἰπεινὰ κ. 2.869: in pl., of a single person, “κάρηνα . . Μελανίππου σπάσας” E.Fr.537: sg. in h.Hom.8.12, 28.8, Mosch.ll. cc., Coluth.264, Anacreont. 1.11.
κάρηνον [α^], τό, Dor. κάρα_νον A.Ch.396 (lyr.), Mosch.1.12 (Ion.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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