Strong G2768κέρας
horn
- Transliteration
- keras
- Pronunciation
- ker'-as
- Morphology
- Greek Noun Neuter
Definition
From a primary word κάρ kar (the hair of the head); a horn (literally or figuratively): - horn.
Detailed definition
κέρας, -ατος
(pl. not irreg. as in Attic), τό, [in LXX chiefly for קָרַן;]
a horn: Rev.5:6 12:3 13:1, 11 17:3, 7 17:12, 16; of the projections at the corners of the altar (Exo.29:12, al.): Rev.9:13. Metaphorical, as symbol of strength, κ. σωτηρίας (cf. Psa.18:3, al.): Luk.1:69.†
(AS)
(pl. not irreg. as in Attic), τό, [in LXX chiefly for קָרַן;]
a horn: Rev.5:6 12:3 13:1, 11 17:3, 7 17:12, 16; of the projections at the corners of the altar (Exo.29:12, al.): Rev.9:13. Metaphorical, as symbol of strength, κ. σωτηρίας (cf. Psa.18:3, al.): Luk.1:69.†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2768 appears in 10 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- horn10
First verses
- Luke 1:69And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
- Revelation 5:6And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth.
- Revelation 9:13And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
- Revelation 12:3And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.
- Revelation 13:1And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
- Revelation 13:11And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
- Revelation 17:3So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
- Revelation 17:7And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
- Revelation 17:12And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
- Revelation 17:16And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
κέρᾰς, τό,
Epic dialect genitive Κέρᾰος, Attic dialect contraction κέρως; Epic dialect dative κέρᾰϊ (elided) or κέραι or κέρᾳ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.385, cf. Hdn.Gr. 2.75, κέρᾳ also in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.90, 7.6:)] nominative plural κέρᾱ (see. below), genitive κεράων, κερῶν, dative κέρασι, _Epic dialect_ κεράεσσι:—Attic dialect Inscrr. have dual [κέρ]ατε [Refs (“IG” 12.301.109: _plural_ κέρατα [prev. work] 237.59;)] later Epic dialect κεράατα ([music notation]) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 291, κεράατος ([music notation]) 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 174, 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 6.225; _dative_ κεράασι [musical notation] A.R.4.978::—Hdt.has _genitive_ κέρεος 6.111, _dative_ κέρεϊ 9.102: _plural_ κέρεα 2.38, κερέων [prev. work] 132; but 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus has _genitive_ _sing._ κέρως, _plural_ κέρατα, “Aër.” 18. [In _nominative_ and _accusative_ κέρας, ᾰ always: in the oblative cases ᾰ in _Epic dialect_, as κέρᾰσιν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.384 (in _contraction_ _dative_ κέρᾱ, _nominative_ _plural_ κέρᾱ compare (Batrachomyomachia 165))], a is shortened before a vowel, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.385, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.211))]; but ᾱ in Trag.and Comedy texts, κέρᾱτος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 43, κέρᾱτα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 921, κεράτων [ᾱ] probably in 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 519 (Lyric poetry), κέρᾱσι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 185. In later _Epic dialect_ the quantity varies.] (κέρας is probably related to κάρα)]; compare κεραός.)
I the horn of an animal, in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] mostly of oxen, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.521, etc.; ταῦροι.. εἰς κέρας θυμούμενοι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 743)]; ὀφθαλμοὶ δ᾽ ὡς εἰ κέρα ἕστασαν his eyes stood fixed and stiff like horns, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.211)]; as a symbol of strength, [LXX+4th c.BC+ (LXX.Psa.17(18).3, 4th-5th c.AD: Diogenianus Paroemiographus 7.89, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 662a1)]; of elephants' tusks, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 2.13, 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 2.494.)]
I.2 antennae of crustaceans, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 526a31, 590b27)]; of the silkworm's grub, [Refs ([prev. work] 551b10.)]
II horn, as a material, αἱ μὲν γὰρ [πύλαι] κεράεσσι τετεύχαται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.563)]; the horn of animals' hoofs, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Longus Scriptor Eroticus 2.28.)]
III anything made of horn,
III.1 bow, τόξον ἐνώμα.. πειρώμενος.. μὴ κέρα ἶπες ἔδοιεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.395, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 25.206, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 38, “Anthologia Graeca” 6.75 (6th c.AD: Paulus Silentiarius Epigrammaticus); for 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.385 see below variant)]
III.2 of musical instruments, horn for blowing, σημῆναι τῷ κέρατι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.2.4, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Audibilibus” 802a17)]; also, the Phrygian flute, because it was tipped with horn [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (compare (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.74), αὐλεῖν τῷ κ. 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DDeor.” 12.1; καὶ κέρατι μὲν αὐλεῖν Τυρρηνοὶ νομίζουσι 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.76, compare 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 4.184a.)]
III.3 drinking-horn, ἐκ τοῦ κέρατος αὖ μοι δὸς πιεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 43, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.2.23, “OGI” 214.43 (Didyma, 3rd c.BC))]; ἐξ ἀργυρέων κ. πίνειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 166, compare “IG” 12.280.77; ἀργυρηλάτοις κέρασι χρυσᾶ στόμια προσβεβλημένοις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 185; ἐκπιόντι χρύσεον κ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 483)]; for measuring liquids, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.435.)]
III.4 Ἀμαλθείας κ. cornucopiae, see at {Ἀμάλθεια}.
IV βοὸς κ. probably a horn guard or cover attached to a fishing-line, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.81, cf. Scholia; ἐς πόντον προΐησι βοὸς κέρας 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.253; ψάμμῳ κ. αἰὲν ἐρείδων “Anthologia Graeca” 6.230 (1st c.AD(?): Maecius Epigrammaticus), compare 3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristarchus Grammaticus cited in 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Biographus “Lex.” see {κέρᾳ ἀγλαέ}, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus cited in 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.977a)] (also explained as a fishing-line of ox-hair (compare belowsee.l), cited in [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.976f, compare 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.31)]; perhaps an artificial bait).
IV.2 clyster-pipe, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 8.32 7.)]
IV.3 in plural, horn points with which the writing-reed was tipped, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 6.227 (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Crinagoras Epigrammaticus).)]
V of objects shaped like horns,
V.1 a mode of dressing the hair, κέρᾳ ἀγλαέ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.385)] (unless the meaning be bow),[Refs 3rd c.BC+ (compare 3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristarchus Grammaticus (at [prev. work]), Herodorus and Apionap. 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis (at [prev. work]): hence κέρας is explained as ={θρίξ} or κόμη, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Biographus “Lex.”, Hdn.Gr. cited in Eust.[same place], 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.31, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]; compare iv. l, and see at {κεροπλάστης}.
V.2 arm or branch of a river, Ὠκεανοῖο κ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 789; Νείλου 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 201; τὸ Μενδήσιον κέρας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.110; ἐν Ἰνδοῖς ἐν τῷ Κέρατι καλουμένῳ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mirabilia” 835b5, compare “Mu.” 393b5)]; τὸ κ. τὸ Βυζαντίων the 'Golden Horn', [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 7.6.2, compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.43.7, Scholia 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.282)]; Ἑσπέρου K., name of a bay, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Hanno Geographus “Periplus - GGM” 14, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 1.21.2.)]
V.3 wing of an army, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.26, etc.; or fleet, [prev. author] 6.8, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.90, etc.)]; κ. δεξιόν, λαιόν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 399, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 704; τὸ εὐώνυμον κ. ἀναπτύσσειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.10.9.)]
V.3.b κατὰ κέρας προσβάλλειν, ἐπιπεσεῖν, to attack in flank, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.78, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.5.16, etc.)]; κατὰ κ. προσιέναι, ἕπεσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 7.1.8 and 28; κατὰ κ. συμπεσών 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.40.14; πρὸς κ. μάχεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.1.22.)]
V.3.c ἐπὶ κέρας ἀνάγειν τὰς νέας to lead a fleet in column, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.12, compare 14; κατὰ μίαν ἐπὶ κέρως παραπλεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.90, compare 6.32, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.3.34, 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 67.4)]; of armies, κατὰ κέρας, opposed to ἐπὶ φάλαγγος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.43, compare “An.” 4.6.6, “HG” 7.4.23; εἰς κ. [prev. author] “Eq.Mag.” 4.3; ἐκ κέρατος εἰς φάλαγγα καταστῆσαι [prev. author] “Cyr.” 8.5.15)]; οὐκ ἐλᾶτε πρὸς τὸ δεξιὸν κ.; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 243.)]
V.4 corps of[Refs (8192)]men, ={διφαλαγγαρχία}, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Asclepiodotus Tacticus “Tact.” 2.6, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Tactica” 10.7.)]
V.4.b = {μεραρχία}, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Asclepiodotus Tacticus “Tact.” 2.10.)]
V.4.c contingent of thirty-two chariots, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. work] 8, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Tactica - Griechische Kriegsschriftsteller” 22.2.)]
V.5 sailyard, ={κεραία}, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 5.203 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus), “OGI” 674.30 (Egypt, 1st c.AD), 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 6, “POxy.” 2136.6 (3rd c.AD).)]
V.6 mountainpeak, variant in [Refs (“Hymni Homerici” 1.8)]; spur, τὸ κ. τοῦ ὄρους [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.7, compare 3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 534)]: in plural, extremities of the earth, γῆς [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 2.18 (_plural_).)]
V.7 in Anatomy, extremities of the uterus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἐπικυήσιος” 1, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 7.266)]; of the diaphragm, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.57.)]
V.7.b ἁπαλὸν κ., = {πόσθη}, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 171, compareNeophro (?) in “PLit.Lond.” 77 “fragment” 2.19, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 278, “Anthologia Graeca” 12.95.6 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus).)]
V.8 of the πήχεις of the lyre, χρυσόδετον κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 244 (Lyric poetry))] (rather than the bridge, because made of horn, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aelius Dionysius Grammaticus “fragment” 133, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.62).)]
VI κέρατα ποιεῖν τινι to give him horns, cuckold him, proverbial in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Artemidorus Daldianus Onirocriticus 2.11; compare κερασφόρος 11.)]
VII = {κερατίνης}, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 1.2.)]
VIII = {σταφυλῖνος ἄγριος}, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.52)]; ={οἰνάνθη}, uncertain in Ps.-[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.120.)]
Epic dialect genitive Κέρᾰος, Attic dialect contraction κέρως; Epic dialect dative κέρᾰϊ (elided) or κέραι or κέρᾳ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.385, cf. Hdn.Gr. 2.75, κέρᾳ also in 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.90, 7.6:)] nominative plural κέρᾱ (see. below), genitive κεράων, κερῶν, dative κέρασι, _Epic dialect_ κεράεσσι:—Attic dialect Inscrr. have dual [κέρ]ατε [Refs (“IG” 12.301.109: _plural_ κέρατα [prev. work] 237.59;)] later Epic dialect κεράατα ([music notation]) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 291, κεράατος ([music notation]) 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 174, 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 6.225; _dative_ κεράασι [musical notation] A.R.4.978::—Hdt.has _genitive_ κέρεος 6.111, _dative_ κέρεϊ 9.102: _plural_ κέρεα 2.38, κερέων [prev. work] 132; but 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus has _genitive_ _sing._ κέρως, _plural_ κέρατα, “Aër.” 18. [In _nominative_ and _accusative_ κέρας, ᾰ always: in the oblative cases ᾰ in _Epic dialect_, as κέρᾰσιν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.384 (in _contraction_ _dative_ κέρᾱ, _nominative_ _plural_ κέρᾱ compare (Batrachomyomachia 165))], a is shortened before a vowel, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.385, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.211))]; but ᾱ in Trag.and Comedy texts, κέρᾱτος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 43, κέρᾱτα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 921, κεράτων [ᾱ] probably in 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 519 (Lyric poetry), κέρᾱσι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 185. In later _Epic dialect_ the quantity varies.] (κέρας is probably related to κάρα)]; compare κεραός.)
I the horn of an animal, in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] mostly of oxen, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.521, etc.; ταῦροι.. εἰς κέρας θυμούμενοι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 743)]; ὀφθαλμοὶ δ᾽ ὡς εἰ κέρα ἕστασαν his eyes stood fixed and stiff like horns, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.211)]; as a symbol of strength, [LXX+4th c.BC+ (LXX.Psa.17(18).3, 4th-5th c.AD: Diogenianus Paroemiographus 7.89, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Partibus Animalium” 662a1)]; of elephants' tusks, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aretaeus Medicus “περὶ αἰτιῶν καὶ σημείων χρονίων παθῶν” 2.13, 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 2.494.)]
I.2 antennae of crustaceans, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 526a31, 590b27)]; of the silkworm's grub, [Refs ([prev. work] 551b10.)]
II horn, as a material, αἱ μὲν γὰρ [πύλαι] κεράεσσι τετεύχαται [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.563)]; the horn of animals' hoofs, [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD(?): Longus Scriptor Eroticus 2.28.)]
III anything made of horn,
III.1 bow, τόξον ἐνώμα.. πειρώμενος.. μὴ κέρα ἶπες ἔδοιεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.395, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 25.206, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 38, “Anthologia Graeca” 6.75 (6th c.AD: Paulus Silentiarius Epigrammaticus); for 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.385 see below variant)]
III.2 of musical instruments, horn for blowing, σημῆναι τῷ κέρατι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.2.4, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Audibilibus” 802a17)]; also, the Phrygian flute, because it was tipped with horn [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (compare (2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.74), αὐλεῖν τῷ κ. 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DDeor.” 12.1; καὶ κέρατι μὲν αὐλεῖν Τυρρηνοὶ νομίζουσι 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.76, compare 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 4.184a.)]
III.3 drinking-horn, ἐκ τοῦ κέρατος αὖ μοι δὸς πιεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 43, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.2.23, “OGI” 214.43 (Didyma, 3rd c.BC))]; ἐξ ἀργυρέων κ. πίνειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 166, compare “IG” 12.280.77; ἀργυρηλάτοις κέρασι χρυσᾶ στόμια προσβεβλημένοις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 185; ἐκπιόντι χρύσεον κ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 483)]; for measuring liquids, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.435.)]
III.4 Ἀμαλθείας κ. cornucopiae, see at {Ἀμάλθεια}.
IV βοὸς κ. probably a horn guard or cover attached to a fishing-line, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.81, cf. Scholia; ἐς πόντον προΐησι βοὸς κέρας 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.253; ψάμμῳ κ. αἰὲν ἐρείδων “Anthologia Graeca” 6.230 (1st c.AD(?): Maecius Epigrammaticus), compare 3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristarchus Grammaticus cited in 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Biographus “Lex.” see {κέρᾳ ἀγλαέ}, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus cited in 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.977a)] (also explained as a fishing-line of ox-hair (compare belowsee.l), cited in [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.976f, compare 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.31)]; perhaps an artificial bait).
IV.2 clyster-pipe, [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 8.32 7.)]
IV.3 in plural, horn points with which the writing-reed was tipped, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 6.227 (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Crinagoras Epigrammaticus).)]
V of objects shaped like horns,
V.1 a mode of dressing the hair, κέρᾳ ἀγλαέ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.385)] (unless the meaning be bow),[Refs 3rd c.BC+ (compare 3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristarchus Grammaticus (at [prev. work]), Herodorus and Apionap. 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis (at [prev. work]): hence κέρας is explained as ={θρίξ} or κόμη, 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Biographus “Lex.”, Hdn.Gr. cited in Eust.[same place], 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.31, 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]; compare iv. l, and see at {κεροπλάστης}.
V.2 arm or branch of a river, Ὠκεανοῖο κ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 789; Νείλου 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 201; τὸ Μενδήσιον κέρας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.110; ἐν Ἰνδοῖς ἐν τῷ Κέρατι καλουμένῳ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mirabilia” 835b5, compare “Mu.” 393b5)]; τὸ κ. τὸ Βυζαντίων the 'Golden Horn', [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 7.6.2, compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.43.7, Scholia 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.282)]; Ἑσπέρου K., name of a bay, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Hanno Geographus “Periplus - GGM” 14, compare 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 1.21.2.)]
V.3 wing of an army, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.26, etc.; or fleet, [prev. author] 6.8, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.90, etc.)]; κ. δεξιόν, λαιόν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 399, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 704; τὸ εὐώνυμον κ. ἀναπτύσσειν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.10.9.)]
V.3.b κατὰ κέρας προσβάλλειν, ἐπιπεσεῖν, to attack in flank, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.78, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.5.16, etc.)]; κατὰ κ. προσιέναι, ἕπεσθαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Cyr.” 7.1.8 and 28; κατὰ κ. συμπεσών 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.40.14; πρὸς κ. μάχεσθαι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.1.22.)]
V.3.c ἐπὶ κέρας ἀνάγειν τὰς νέας to lead a fleet in column, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.12, compare 14; κατὰ μίαν ἐπὶ κέρως παραπλεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.90, compare 6.32, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.3.34, 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 67.4)]; of armies, κατὰ κέρας, opposed to ἐπὶ φάλαγγος, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.43, compare “An.” 4.6.6, “HG” 7.4.23; εἰς κ. [prev. author] “Eq.Mag.” 4.3; ἐκ κέρατος εἰς φάλαγγα καταστῆσαι [prev. author] “Cyr.” 8.5.15)]; οὐκ ἐλᾶτε πρὸς τὸ δεξιὸν κ.; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 243.)]
V.4 corps of[Refs (8192)]men, ={διφαλαγγαρχία}, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Asclepiodotus Tacticus “Tact.” 2.6, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Tactica” 10.7.)]
V.4.b = {μεραρχία}, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Asclepiodotus Tacticus “Tact.” 2.10.)]
V.4.c contingent of thirty-two chariots, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. work] 8, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Tactica - Griechische Kriegsschriftsteller” 22.2.)]
V.5 sailyard, ={κεραία}, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 5.203 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus), “OGI” 674.30 (Egypt, 1st c.AD), 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 6, “POxy.” 2136.6 (3rd c.AD).)]
V.6 mountainpeak, variant in [Refs (“Hymni Homerici” 1.8)]; spur, τὸ κ. τοῦ ὄρους [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.7, compare 3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 534)]: in plural, extremities of the earth, γῆς [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 2.18 (_plural_).)]
V.7 in Anatomy, extremities of the uterus, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἐπικυήσιος” 1, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 7.266)]; of the diaphragm, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.57.)]
V.7.b ἁπαλὸν κ., = {πόσθη}, [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 171, compareNeophro (?) in “PLit.Lond.” 77 “fragment” 2.19, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 278, “Anthologia Graeca” 12.95.6 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus).)]
V.8 of the πήχεις of the lyre, χρυσόδετον κ. [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 244 (Lyric poetry))] (rather than the bridge, because made of horn, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Aelius Dionysius Grammaticus “fragment” 133, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.62).)]
VI κέρατα ποιεῖν τινι to give him horns, cuckold him, proverbial in [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Artemidorus Daldianus Onirocriticus 2.11; compare κερασφόρος 11.)]
VII = {κερατίνης}, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 1.2.)]
VIII = {σταφυλῖνος ἄγριος}, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.52)]; ={οἰνάνθη}, uncertain in Ps.-[Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.120.)]