κᾰλᾰμ-η, ἡ,
(see. κάλαμος) stalk, especially the stalk or straw of corn, metaphorically in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, αἶψά τε φυλόπιδος πέλεται κόρος ἀνθρώποισιν, ἧς τε πλείστην μὲν καλάμην Χθονὶ Χαλκὸς ἔχευεν, ἄμητος δ᾽ ὀλίγιστος] Refs 8th c.BC+], i.e. when there is much straw and little harvest, much slaughter and little profit, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.222 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κ. πυρῶν wheat-straw, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.33; σῖτος σὺν τῇ καλάμῃ ἀποκείμενος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.4.27; καλάμαν τε καὶ ἱερὰ δράγματα.. ἀσταχύων 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Cererem” 20 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; proverbial of a greedy farmer, πυροὺς ἐπὶ καλάμῃ ἀροῦν to exhaust ground by one corn-crop after another, [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator “Fragmenta” 77: _plural_, σῖτος ἐπὶ ταῖς κ. 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 5.13. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 stubble, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 341b27, “PSI” 4.380.6 (3rd c.BC), NT.1Cor.3.12, etc.: _metaphorically_, of an old man, καλάμην γέ σ᾽ ὀΐομαι εἰσορόωντα γιγνώσκειν] NT+4th c.BC+] thou mayst still, I ween, perceive the stubble (i.e. the residue) of former strength, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.214; τὸ γῆρας καλάμη 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1410b14; τὴν κ. δωρῇ, δοὺς ἑτέροις τὸ θέρος “Anthologia Graeca” 11.36 (1st c.AD: Philippus Epigrammaticus)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ῥήσου κ. the remains of Rhesus, i.e. his corpse, Oracle texts cited in [[ 2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 6.53 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἀπὸ τῆς κ. τεκμαίρεσθαι to judge from the remains, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Alex.” 5. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 κολχὶς κ., ={λίνον}, [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Fragmenta” 265. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]