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Corpus	Words	Max. Inst.	Freq./10K	Min. Inst.	Freq./10K
Greek Texts	4844028	180	0.37	96	0.20
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Words With Similar Definitions
Greek 1: kêpokomas 2: metanastês 3: kourias 4: skaphiokouros 5: anachôrêtês

Latin 1: Periclymenus 2: Antiphates 3: Lycidas 4: impetiginosus 5: quattuorviralis
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In Perseus Texts: korê cheir mechri Zeus didômi
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koros (A), ho, satiety, surfeit, aipsa te phulopidos peletai k. anthrôpoisin Hom. Il. 19.221; aipsêros de k. krueroio gooio Hom. Od. 4.103; pantôn men k. esti, kai hupnou kai philotêtos Hom. Il. 13.636; apo k. amblunei aianês elpidas Pind. P. 1.82; koron echei meli IDEM=Pind. N. 7.52; k. echein dakruôn, kakôn, Eur. Alc. 185, ti=Eur. Phoen. 1750 (lyr.); also koron hê toutôn sunousia echei Plat. Phaedrus 240c; es k. ienai tinos Philox.2.38; achri korou Dem. 19.187; es koron Luc. Merc.Cond.26, Gal.15.500, ti=Gal. Vict.Att.8; pros hêdonên te kai k. gormandizing, Hp.VM14: in mystical sense, opp. chrêsmosunê, Heraclit. 65.

2. the consequence of satiety, insolence, Pind. O. 2.95, ti=Pind. I. 3.2; pros koron insolently, Aesch. Ag. 382 (lyr.): freq. as cause or consequence of hubris, tiktei toi koros hubrin, hotan kakôi olbos hepêtai anthrôpôi Thgn. 153, cf. Sol.8; hubrin korou matera Pind. O. 13.10; koron, hubrios huion Bacis ap.Hdt. 8.77. (Cf. korennumi.)

koros (B), ho, Ion. kouros, as always in Hom., Pi., and lyr. passages of Trag. (exc. Eur. Alc. 904), sts. in late Gr., ti=E. Rev.Et.Gr.42.247 (Varna); Dor. kôros Theoc.15.120:--

boy, lad (even before birth, hon . . gasteri mêtêr kouron eonta pheroi Hom. Il. 6.59, cf. Call.Del.212), kouros prôton hupênêtês Hom. Il. 24.347; prôthêbai Hom. Od. 8.262; tote kouros ea, nun aute me gêras opazei Hom. Il. 4.321; sun korois te kai korais A.Fr.43: in mock Trag., Oidipou . . paide, diptuchô korô Ar.Fr.558: rarein Prose, Plat. Laws 772a; male infant, eteke koron Conon 33.3, cf. IG42(1).121.5 (Epid., iv B. C.); in Il. of warriors, 9.86, au=Hom. Il. 12.196, al.; kouroi Boiôtôn, Athênaiôn, Achaiôn, au=Hom. Il. 2.510,au=Hom. Il. 2.551=lr,au=Hom. Il. 2.562=lr; lektoi Athênaiôn k. Eur. Supp. 356; also, of servants waiting at sacrifices and feasts, Hom. Il. 1.470, al.; at Sparta, koroi, = hippeis, Archyt.ap.Stob.4.1.138.

2. with gen. of pr. n., son, Hom. Od. 19.523, etc.; Thêseôs k. Soph. Phil. 562, cf. ti=Soph. Trach. 644 (lyr.); tôn olôlotôn koroi Eur. Supp. 107; Kekropidôn koroi, periphr. like paides, Eub.10.6.

3. puppet, doll, used in Magic, S.Fr.536.

II. shoot, sprout, of a tree, korous plektous . . murrinês Lysipp.9, cf. Hp.ap.Gal. 19.113, EM276.28, Hsch.; cf. kouros (B).

III. for Comp. v. kouroteros . (Acc. to Eust.582.20, al., from keirô, of one who has cut his hair short on emerging from boyhood: but kor(W)os (masc. of korê ) perh. cogn. with Lat. Ceres, Cerus, cresco.)

koros (C), ho, besom, Hsch.

koros (D), ho, Hebr. kor, a dry measure containing, acc. to J.AJ 15.9.2, au=J. AJ 15.9.10=lr Att. medimni (about au=J. AJ 15.9.120=lr gallons), LXX Nu.11.32, al., Ev.Luc.16.7, cf. Eupolem.ap.Alex.Polyh.18.