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κρέξ , ἡ, gen. κρεκός, a long-legged bird, perh.
A.corn-crake, Rallus crex, or ruff, Machetes pugnax, τούτους (sc. λίθους）“ ἐτύκιζον αἱ κρέκες τοῖς ῥύγχεσιν” Ar.Av.1138, cf. Arist.PA695a22, Ael.NA4.5; sacred to Athena, Porph.Abst.3.5; [“ἡ ἶβις] μέγαθος ὅσον κ.” Hdt.2.76; a name of ill omen to the newly-married, Euph.4: hence δισάρπαγος κρέξ, of Helen, Lyc.513.
2. metaph., noisy braggart, Eup. 423.
II. hair, Hsch., Suid.: acc. “κρέκαν” Eust.1528.18.
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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