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κόρη, ἡ,
originally κόρϝα (see. infr. B), with κόρ-η even in Attic dialect Prose and Trag. dialogue; Doric dialect and Aeolic dialect κόρα, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1308 (Lyric poetry), 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 14, also Trag. in Lyric poetry as 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 145, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 508, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 561 ] Refs 7th c.BC+], and in the proper name: κούρα [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.65, and twice in Trag. (in Lyric poetry), see below 1.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: Ionic dialect κούρη, as always in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus (κόρη first in “hymnus ad Cererem” 439)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: Doric dialect also κώρα [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 6.36, ] Refs 3rd c.BC+] also Boeotian dialect, [[ 6th c.BC: Corinna Lyrica “Supp.” 1.48, 2.60] Refs 6th c.BC+] (but κόρα [[ “IG” 7.71012, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 883, compare κορικός, κόριλλα):] Refs 5th c.BC+] — _feminine_ of κόρος, κοῦρος.
__1 girl, ἠΰτε κούρη νηπίη ἥ θ᾽ ἅμα μητρὶ θέουσ᾽ ἀνελέσθαι ἀνώγει [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.7; μήτε παῖδα μήτε κόραν “Schwyzer” 324.12 (Delph., 4th c.BC)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἔτεκε κόραν [[ “IG” 42 (1).121.22 (Epid.)] Refs]; with reference to virginity, maiden, κόρην.. οὐκέτ᾽, ἀλλ᾽ ἐζευγμένην [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 536; παῖς κ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 595, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.79 codices; παρθενικὴ κ. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Epigrammata - PLG” 2; ἀδελφὴ κ. 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.56; ἀνεδέξαντο τὰς κόρας πέμψειν ἐν Ἴλιον “Schwyzer” 366 A 2 (Tolophon, 3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Nymphs, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.78 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐνάλιοι κ. sea-nymphs, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 325 (Lyric poetry): Comedy texts, πρέσβειρα πεντήκοντα Κωπᾴδων κορᾶν] Refs 5th c.BC+], of eels, [[ [prev. author] “Ach.” 883 ] Refs]; τευθὶς καὶ Φαληρικὴ κ., i.e. ἀφύη, [[ 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 75.4 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of maiden-goddesses, however old, as the Eumenides, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 68, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 127 (Lyric poetry); the Phorcids, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 794; the Sphinx, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 508 (Lyric poetry); the Fates, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 617d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __2 of a bride, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.279; young wife, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.247, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1438 (Lyric poetry), 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 3.10.8; or concubine, as Briseis, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.98, 337, 2.689 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; καταχύσματα.. κατάχει τοῦ νυμφίου καὶ τῆς κ. the bride, [[ 5th c.BC: Theopompus Comicus 14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a ἑταίρα, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 5.4 (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Statyllius Flaccus Epigrammaticus), 219 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 1st c.BC+]
__3 with genitive of a proper name added, daughter, νύμφαι κοῦραι Διός [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.420, compare 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 65, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 168 (Lyric poetry), “Andr.” 897, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κ. Διός, of Athene, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 415 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; Λητῴα κόρη, of Artemis, [[ [prev. author] “fragment” 170, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 570 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. Ἰναχεία, κ. Θεστιάς, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 589, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 133 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Γῆς τε καὶ Σκότου κόραι, i.e. the Furies, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 40 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in Thess. Prose, Αἰσχυλὶς Σατύροι (genitive) κόρα [[ “IG” 9(2).1035 (from Gyrton): without _genitive_, “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.7 (_Locrian dialect_, 5th c.BC): in _vocative_, κούρα] Refs 5th c.BC+] my daughter, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 148, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 180 (both Lyric poetry); κόραι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 119. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 metaphorically, of a colony, Κύμης κ. [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus “Epigrammata” 1.2 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of newly-launched ships, [[ 3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 24. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II puppet, doll, as a child's plaything, [[ 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “Fragmenta” 199 (see. below see), 1st-2nd c.AD: Dio Chrysostomus Sophista 31.153 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; small votive image, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 230b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III pupil of the eye, because a little image appears therein (see. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Alcaeus1.133a), κύκλοπα κούρην 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 84.8, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 710, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 972, +others, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 7, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προρρητικόν” 2.20, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus “de Usu Partium” 10.4, 2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “περὶ ὀνομασίας” 23; αἱ καλούμεναι κ. “IG” 42(1).122.67 (Epid., 4th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; K. κόσμου, title of Hermetic tract, [[ 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes 1.49.44 at Title Page ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__IV long sleeve reaching over the hand, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.1.8. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__V the Attic drachma, because it bore a head of Athena, misinterpretation of Hyp. [prev. cited] cited in [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 9.74. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__VI ={ὑπέρεικον}, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 19.113. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__VII Architecture texts, female figures as supports, Caryatids, τοὺς λίθους.. τοὺς ἐπὶ τῶν κορῶν [[ “IG” 12.372.86 (from Erechtheum). ] Refs]
__B Κόρη, Doric dialect Κόρα (Cretan dialect Κώρα [[ “GDI” 5047)] Refs], Ionic dialect Κούρη, [[ 4th c.AD(?): Arcadius Grammaticus (?)] Refs 4th c.AD+] Κόρϝα [[ “IG” 5(2).554 (provenance unknown)] Refs], ἡ:—the Daughter (of Demeter), [[ “Persephone”, τῇ Μητρὶ καὶ τῇ Κόρῃ (variant{Κούρῃ}) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.65; ναὶ τὰν Κόραν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1438 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Δημήτηρ καὶ K. [[ [prev. author] “Th.” 298, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.3.6, “IG” 2.1217, etc.; τῆς Κόρης ἁρπασθείσης 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.28: less frequently K. Δήμητρος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 358, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 337; K. τὴν Διὸς καὶ Δήμητρος 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 10.20. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II Δηοῦς κ., in Comedy texts, = flour, [[ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 52.9; so μεμαγμένη Δήμητρος κ. 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 75.10. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
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