A.“κρέως” S.Fr.728; Cret. “κρίως” GDI5128 (Vaxos): pl. “κρέα” IG12.84.26, etc.; gen. “κρεῶν” Od.15.98, Hdt.1.73, IG12.10.7, Ar.Ra.191, etc.; Ep. “κρειῶν” Il.11.551, al., κρεάων [α^] h.Merc.130; dat. “κρέασι” Il.12.311, κρέεσσι Orac. ap. Hdt.1.47, κρεάεσσι Epic.in Arch.Pap.7.4. [“κρέα^” Hom., E.Cyc.126, Ar.V.363, al., κρέ) elided Od.3.65, 470, Ar.Th. 558, “κρέα_” Antiph.20 (s.v.l.).]:—flesh, meat, Od.8.477, etc.; ἄρνειον κ. piece of lamb, Pherecr.45, cf. Ar.Pl.1137; “ἐρίφειον” Antiph.222.6; “τρία κρέα [ἢ] καὶ πλείω” X.Cyr.2.2.2; “τέτταρα . . κρέα μικρά” Antiph. 172.3 (anap.): pl., mostly in collect. sense, dressed meat, Od.3.65, etc.; “κ. ἑφθά” Hdt.3.23; κ. ἀνάβραστα, ὠπτημένα, Ar.Ra.553, Pl.894; “κ. ὀρνίθεια” Id.Nu.339; “βοῶν” Id.Pax1280; “βόεια” Pl.R.338c; “δαῖτα παιδείων κρεῶν” A.Ag.1242, 1593; κ. Ἀθηναίοις μερίζειν, νέμειν τῷ δήμῳ, IG22.334.15, 24.
2. carcass: hence, body, person, τοῦδε τοῦ κρέως (i.e. ἐμοῦ) S.l.c. (satyric): in Com. addresses, like κάρα, ὦ δεξιώτατον κρέας Ar.Eq.421, cf. 457: prov., ὁ λαγὼς τὸν περὶ τῶν κρεῶν [δρόμον] τρέχει 'to save one's bacon', Zen.4.85, cf. Plu.2.1087b; so “νεναυμάχηκε τὴν περὶ τῶν κρεῶν” Ar.Ra.191, v. Sch. (κρεϝας, cf. Skt. krauís 'raw meat', Lat. cruor.）
