κρῑός, ὁ,
ram, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.447, 461, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.42, etc.; κριοὶ ἄγριοι [prev\. author] 4.192 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: proverbial, κριὸς τροφεῖα ἀπέτεισεν, of ingratitude, because a ram butts at those who have brought him up, [[ 2nd c.AD: Zenobius Paroemiographus 4.63, 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus; κριοὺς ἐκγεννᾶν τέκνα 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 99 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κριοῦ διακονία, of thankless service, [[ 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus; τὸν κριὸν ὡς ἐπέχθη] Refs 5th c.AD+] the 'shearing of the ram', in allusion to the ode of Simonides in honour of Crius of Aegina, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nu.” 1356. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 battering-ram, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cyr.” 7.4.1, “IG” 22.468, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.48.9, 2nd c.BC: Athenaeus Mechanicus 14.1, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “BJ” 3.7.19, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 the constellation [[“Aries”, 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus cited in 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 1.2.13, 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra “Phaen.” p.6 M., 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 238, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “AJ” 3.10.5, etc. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II a seamonster, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “NA” 9.49, 15.2, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “H.” 1.372, 5.33, etc. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__III kind of mussel, [[ Hegesander Historicus 36 (κρεῖος codex A 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]