κολοκύνθ-η,
[[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 591a16, +others (variant -τη), 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.124, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; Attic dialect κολοκύντη, ἡ [[compare (2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 401), 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus 1.13.3, 7.1.2, +others, 4th c.BC: Mnesimachus Comicus 4.30 ] Refs 4th c.BC+] (variant -τα, -θα), also [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 2.54 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; accusative -την [[ 4th c.BC: Epicrates Comicus 11.16, “PMag.Leid.V.” 12.25, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—later κολόκυντᾰ (accusative -ᾰν) [[ “PCair.Zen.” 300.3 (3rd c.BC), LXX.Jonah.4.7 codex A, “Geoponica” 12.19.7, 2nd c.AD: Artemidorus Daldianus Onirocriticus 1.67 (variant), 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “VH” 2.37 (variant), 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus see κυκύϊζα] LXX+3rd c.BC+]; genitive -της [[ “PCair.Zen.” 292.132, 319 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; accusative plural -τας [[ “PSI” 6.553.14 (3rd c.BC), “BGU” 1120.13 (1st c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; κολόκυνθᾰ [[ “PSakk.” in “Rev.Egypt.” 3.123 (3rd c.BC, also -τα [prev. work]120, 122), LXX [same place], 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 923a14 codices, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.134, 4.176] LXX+4th c.BC+], Luc.[same place], Hdn.Gr.1.253, variant for -θη (nominative singular) in [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.794] Refs 2nd c.AD+], but nominative -θη, accusative -θην [[[prev. work]561, +others codices ] Refs]; nominative plural -θαι [[ “Edict.Diocl.” 6.26, 27] Refs]:— round gourd, Cucurbita maxima, [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Oxy.” 1788 “fragment” 4.6] Refs 7th c.BC+] (Aeolic dialect accusative plural -ταις), [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 2.67, 69 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (in accusative -θην, variant -την), [[ 5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 79, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 569.6, 5th c.BC: Metagenes Comicus 16 (-θης codices), 1st c.AD: Diocles Epigrammaticus “Frr.” 125, 141, 3rd c.BC: Diphilus Siphnius Rerum Naturalium Scriptor et Mnesith. cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 2.59b; κ. Ἰνδική Menodorus [prev. work] 59a, 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 89.43 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. ἀγρία colocynth, Citrullus [[ “Colocynthis” ] Refs], Dsc.[same place]: symbolic of health, from its juicy nature, ὑγιώτερον κολοκύντας [[ 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 154, 5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus 34 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; as a lily was of death, ἢ κολοκύντην ἢ κρίνον living or dead, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Diphilus Comicus 98, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 934:] Refs 4th c.BC+] —for λημᾶν κολοκύνταις, see.λημάω.