κορών-η, ἡ,
a sea-bird, possibly shearwater, Puffinus Kuhlii or P. anglorum, τανύγλωσσοί τε κορῶναι εἰνάλιαι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.66, compare 12.418, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 593b13, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Signis Tempestatum” 16, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 950, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 15.23; λάροι καὶ αἴθυιαι καὶ κ. 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Periplus maris Euxini” 32 (but confounded with λ. and αἴ. by Scholia 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.441, compare 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus). ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 crow (including the hooded crow, Corvus cornix, and probably also the rook, C. corone), μή τοι ἐφεζομένη κρώξῃ λακέρυζα κ. [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 747; συκῆ πετραίη πολλὰς βόσκουσα κ. 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 19: distinguished from κολοιός, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 5 (compare 7); ἐννέα τοι ζώει γενεὰς λακέρυζα κ. ἀνδρῶν γηράντων 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 171; πέντ᾽ ἀνδρῶν γενεὰς ζώει λακέρυζα κ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 609; πολιαὶ κ. [prev. work] 967 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κορώνην δευτέραν ἀναπλήσας having lived out twice a full crow's-age, [[ 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 46.9; ὑπὲρ τὰς κορώνας βεβιωκώς 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.16: proverbial, κορώνη σκορπίον [ἥρπασε]] Refs 2nd c.AD+] 'caught a Tartar', [[“Anthologia Graeca” 12.92 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus), compare 2nd c.AD: Zenobius Paroemiographus 4.57, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus, 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; invoked at weddings, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 3.9. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]