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κόραξ

korax

raven, Corvus corax

Appears 44 times across Aristotle's works.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

κόραξ, ᾰκος, ὁ, A. raven, Corvus corax (not in Hom.); πάντα τάδʼ ἐν κοράκεσσι καὶ ἐν φθόρῳ ‘food for crows’, Thgn. 833; κόρακες ὣς ἄκραντα γαρύετον Διὸς πρὸς ὄρνιχα θεῖον Pi. O. 2.87; ἐπὶ σώματος δίκαν κόρακος . . σταθεῖσα A. Ag. 1473(lyr.); κόρακες ὥστε βωμῶν ἀλέγοντες οὐδέν Id. Supp. 751 (lyr.); κόραξι καὶ λύκοις χαρίζεσθαι Luc. Tim. 8; in imprecations, ἐς κόρακας ‘go and be hanged’, Ar. V. 852, 982; βάλλʼ ἐς κ. Id. Nu. 133; ἀπόφερʼ ἐς κ. Id. Pax 1221; οὐκ ἐς κ. ἐρρήσετε; ib.500; ἔρρʼ ἐς κ. Pherecr. 70; πλείτω ἐς κ. Ar. Eq. 1314; οὐκ ἐς κ. ἀποφθερεῖ; Id. Nu. 789; ἐς κ. οἰχήσεται Id. V. 51; ἐξελῶ σʼ ἐς κ. ἐκ τῆς οἰκίας Id. Nu. 123; ἐς κ. ἔρρειν ἐκ τῆς Ἀττικῆς Alex. 94.5: as a prophet of bad weather, Arist. Fr. 253, Thphr Sign. 16, Plu. 2.129a, etc.; of fair weather, Arat. 1003, Gp. 1.2.6, etc.; λευκὸς κ., prov. of something unheard of, AP 11.417, Luc. Epigr. 43; but white ravens are mentioned by Arist. HA 519a6. 2. cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo, ib.593b18. 3. the constellation Corvus, Arat. 449, Ptol. Tetr. 27, etc. 4. title of a grade in the mysteries of Mithras, Porph. Abst. 4.16. II. anything hooked or pointed like a ravenʼs beak, cf. κορώνη II, 1. engine for grappling ships, Plb 1.22.3, App. BC 5.106. b. siege-engine, Ph. Bel. 100.18, D.S. 17.44. 2. hooked door-handle, Posidipp. 7, AP 11.203, Alex.Aphr. in SE 25.17; hook on a machine, Hero Aut. 15.3, Orib. 49.4.16, Ath.Mech. 36.10, Bito 50.9: generally, hook, Sammelb. 1.24 (iii A. D.). 3. instrument of torture, Luc. Nec. 11 (s.v.l.). 4. = κατακλείς, Hero Bel. 79.11. 5. point of a surgical knife, σμιλαρίου Heliod. ap. Orib. 44.10.5; κατιάδος Id. ap. Sch.Orib. 44.14.4. 6. cockʼs bill, Hsch. III. tub-fish (cf. κορακῖνος), Diph.Siph. ap. Ath. 8.356a. IV. a plaster, Philum. ap. Aët. 5.127, Orib. Fr. 84. (Cf. κορώνη, Lat. corvus, cornix, etc.)

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