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κορων-ίς , ίδος, ἡ, acc. -
A.“νίν” Hes.Fr.123.3 (as pr.n.):— crook-beaked: hence, generally, curved, in Hom. always of ships, “παρὰ νηυσὶ κορωνίσι” Il.18.338, al.; twice in Od., “ἐν νήεσι κ.” 19.182, cf.193.
2. of kine, with crumpled horns, Theoc.25.151.
II. as Subst., anything curved or bent:
1. wreath, garland, Stesich.29, Hsch.
2. curved line or stroke, flourish with the pen at the end of a book or chapter, scene of a play, etc., AP11.41 (Phld.), Heph.Poëm. p.73 C., Isid.Etym.1.21.26, Sch.Ar.Nu.510, al.; “ἐγὼ κ. εἰμι γραμμάτων φύλαξ” PLit.Lond.11; “ἐπιτιθέναι τὴν κ. τῷ συγγράμματι” Plu.2.66e; ἀπὸ τῆς ἀρχῆς μέχρι τῆς κ. ib.334c, etc.
b. metaph., end, completion, “ἐπιθεῖναι κορωνίδα τινί” Luc.Hist.Conscr.26, cf. Gal.1.643; “ἡ κ. τοῦ βίου” Plu.2.789a; “ἡ κ. τῶν ἀγαθῶν” Hld.10.39, etc.
3. mark of crasis ('), as in τοὔνομα, θοἰμάτιον, τοὐμόν, etc., An.Ox.1.372, Sch. D.T.p.147 H., EM763.10 (found in parchments of Lyr.Alex.Adesp. 31.20 (ii A. D.), Sapph.Supp.2.4 (vii A. D.), etc.).
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 (4):
    • Homer, Iliad, 18.338
    • Homer, Odyssey, 19.182
    • Aristophanes, Clouds, 510
    • Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, 26
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