κέγχρος, ὁ
(also ἡ, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 250a20, 4th c.AD: Dieuches Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 4.7.15, Glaucus Atheniensis Epigrammaticus cited in “POxy.” 1802.42, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.97, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.791, 4th c.AD: Julianus Imperator “Orationes” 3.112a, 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de vita Pythagorica” 24.106)] Refs 4th c.BC+], millet, Panicum miliaceum, usually in plural, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 398, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.17, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 21, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.22, etc.: _sing._, 4th-5th c.BC: Hecataeus Milesius Historicus 154 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.193, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.11.2, +others, “OGI” 55.15 (Telmessus, 3rd c.BC)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a single grain, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.100, 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 6.3.11, probably in 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 1.13 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]:—also κέρχνος, [[ 4th c.BC: Anaxandrides Comicus 41.27, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(1).574] Refs 4th c.BC+]; compare κέρχνωμα, κέρχνη.
__II anything in small grains:
__II.1 spawn of fish, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.93. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 small beads, [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 12.525e. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.3 speck, sty in the eye, [[ 4th c.AD: Adamantius Physiognomonicus 1.11, +others ] Refs 4th c.AD+]