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κονι^ορτ-ός , ὁ, (κόνις, ὄρνυμι)
A.dust raised or stirred up, cloud of dust, Hdt.8.65; “ὁ κ. δῆλος αὐτῶν ὡς ὁμοῦ προσκειμένων” Ar.Eq.245, cf. Th.4.44; κ. τῆς ὕλης νεωστὶ κεκαυμένης, i.e. a cloud of woodashes, ib.34; “κ. καὶ ζάλη” Pl.R.496d: in pl., Diocl.Fr.147.
2. generally, dirt, sweepings, σαρώματα . . σὺν τῷ κ. Wilcken Chr.198.16 (iii B.C.).
II. metaph., dirty fellow, “χαίρει τις αὐχμῶν ἢ ῥυπῶν, κ. ἀναπέφηνεν” Anaxandr.34.6, cf. Aristopho 10.8; “Εὐκτήμων ὁ κ.” D. 21.103.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 245
    • Demosthenes, Against Midias, 103
    • Herodotus, Histories, 8.65
    • Plato, Republic, 496d
    • Thucydides, Histories, 4.44
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