A.dabchick, Podiceps ruficollis, Ar.Fr.29, Autocr.1, Anaxandr.41.66, Arist.HA593b5: prov., κίγκλου πτωχότερος 'poor as a church mouse', because it had no nest of its own, Men.221, cf. Ael.NA12.9:—Suid. has κίγκαλος , but κιγκάλους is unmetrical as a fish-name in Numen. ap. Ath.7.326a.
κίγκλος , ὁ, prob.
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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