[Meaning those who are] familiar. [This equivalence applies] since the 'tame' [kti/los] one, the ram leading the flock, [is] familiar to the shepherd.[1]
*)ektilou/menoi: sunh/qeis. e)pei\ o( kti/los o( h(gou/menos th=s poi/mnhs krio\s sunh/qhs tw=| poime/ni.
The Suda's headword
e)ktilou/menoi is very probably a mistake for
e)ktilw/menoi, i.e. perfect middle participle (masculine nominative plural) of
ktilo/w. (Adler reports that
e)ktileme/noi is the reading of mss IVM before correction.) Equivalent entry -- but with the correct spelling -- in
Hesychius (epsilon1721), and cf. also
Pausanias the Atticist epsilon28 (nominative singulars), and, post-Suda, ps.-
Zonaras and
Etymologicum Magnum 324.51-52 (both dative plurals).
The headword participle must be quoted from somewhere, but in none of these three grammatical forms is it independently attested.
[1] cf.
kappa 2526.
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