A.round gourd, Cucurbita maxima, Alc.Oxy.1788 Fr.4.6 (Aeol. acc. pl. -ταις), Hp.Morb.2.67, 69 (in acc. -θην, v.l. -την), Hermipp.79, Ar.Fr.569.6, Metag.16 (-θης codd.), Diocl.Frr.125, 141, Diph.Siph. et Mnesith. ap. Ath.2.59b; κ. Ἰνδική Menodorus ib.59a, Ph.Bel.89.43; κ. ἀγρία colocynth, Citrullus Colocynthis, Dsc.l.c.: symbolic of health, from its juicy nature, “ὑγιώτερον κολοκύντας” Epich.154, Sophr.34; as a lily was of death, ἢ κολοκύντην ἢ κρίνον living or dead, Diph.98, cf. Men.934:—for λημᾶν κολοκύνταις, v.λημάω.
κολοκύνθ-η , Arist.HA591a16, al. (v.l. -τη), Sor.1.124, etc.; Att. κολοκυνθ-κύντη , ἡ (cf. Phryn.401), Thphr.1.13.3, 7.1.2, al., Mnesim.4.30 (v.l. -τα, -θα), also Hp.Vict.2.54; acc. -την Epicr.11.16, PMag.Leid.V. 12.25, etc.:—later κολόκυντα^ (acc. -α^ν) PCair.Zen.300.3 (iii B.C.), LXX Jn.4.7 cod.A, Gp.12.19.7, Artem.1.67 (v.l.), Luc.VH2.37 (v.l.), Hsch.s.v.κυκύϊζα; gen. -της PCair.Zen.292.132, 319 (iii B.C.); acc. pl. -τας PSI6.553.14 (iii B.C.), BGU1120.13 (i B.C.); κολόκυνθα^ PSakk. in Rev.Egypt.3.123 (iii B.C., also -τα ib.120, 122), LXX l.c., Arist.Pr.923a14 codd., Dsc.2.134, 4.176, Luc.l.c., Hdn.Gr.1.253, v.l. for -θη (nom. sg.) in Gal.6.794, but nom. -θη, acc. -θην ib.561, al. codd.; nom. pl. -θαι Edict.Diocl.6.26, 27:—
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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