κανθήλιος · kanthēlios — LSJ
pack-ass, ass, blockhead
pack-ass, Ar. Lys. 290 (lyr.), Luc. Pseudol. 3, POxy. 1733.4 (iii A.D.); ὄνος κ. Hermipp. 9, X. Cyr. 7.5.11, Pl. Smp. 221e, etc.: metaph., ass, blockhead, Lysipp. 7, Luc. JTr. 31.
The corpus record
κανθήλιος
kanthelios · ὁ
pack-ass, ass, blockhead
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Where it lives
- Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
- Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
What it meant
In the wild
- κανθηλίους · kanthēlious Plato, Symposium 221 (DIORISIS sentence 985)
- κανθήλιοι · kanthēlioi Xenophon, Cyropaedia 7.5.11 (DIORISIS sentence 3875)
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.