κρέας, τό,
Doric dialect κρῆς (which see), Epic dialect κρεῖας uncertain conjecture in [[ 6th c.BC: Ananius Lyricus 5.3; _Attic dialect_ _genitive_ κρέως 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “fragment” 728 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; Cretan dialect [[ κρίως “GDI” 5128 (from Vaxos): _plural_ κρέα “IG” 12.84.26 ] Refs], etc.; genitive [[ κρεῶν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.98, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.73, “IG” 12.10.7, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ra.” 191, etc.; _Epic dialect_ κρειῶν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.551 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], +others, κρεάων [ᾰ] [[ “Hymnus ad Mamercus Elegiacus” 130; _dative_ κρέασι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.311 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], κρέεσσι Oracle texts cited in [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.47, κρεάεσσι Epic.in “Arch.Papyrus” 7.4. [κρέᾰ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyc.” 126, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “V.” 363, +others, κρέ) elided 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.65, 470, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Th.” 558, κρέᾱ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 20 ] Refs 8th c.BC+] (assuming variant).]:—flesh, meat, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.477, etc.; ἄρνειον κ.] Refs 8th c.BC+] piece of lamb, [[ 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 45, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pl.” 1137; ἐρίφειον 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 222.6; τρία κρέα [ἢ] καὶ πλείω Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.2.2; τέτταρα.. κρέα μικρά 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 172.3 ] Refs 6th c.BC+] (anapaest meter): plural, mostly in collective sense, dressed meat, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.65, etc.; κ. ἑφθά 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.23 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κ. ἀνάβραστα, ὠπτημένα, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ra.” 553, “Pl.” 894; κ. ὀρνίθεια [prev\. author] “Nu.” 339; βοῶν [prev\. author] “Pax” 1280; βόεια Plato Philosophus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Respublica” 338c; δαῖτα παιδείων κρεῶν Aeschylus Tragicus [{4-5th c.BC}] “Agamemnon” 1242, 1593 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; κ. Ἀθηναίοις μερίζειν, νέμειν τῷ δήμῳ, [[“IG” 22.334.15, 24. ] Refs]