[sc. Grammatically] like fia/lews.[1] It is a kind of fig-tree.[2] They also call it raven-coloured: for its fruit looks like a raven in colour.[3]
*korw/news: w(s fia/lews. e)/sti de\ ei)=dos sukh=s. tau/thn de\ kai\ kora/keion le/gousin: o( ga\r karpo\s au)th=s ko/raki e)/oike kata\ to\ xrw=ma.
See generally LSJ s.v.
korw/nh (a feminine noun with many senses --
kappa 2105). The present related headword,
korwne/ws, occurs (in the accusative case) in
Aristophanes: see below.
[1] Here
fia/lews is a corruption of
fiba/lews, a type of early fig, with which
korw/news is compared grammatically in Herodian,
De prosodia catholica p. 245 Lentz. For both this and the headword itself see under
phi 287.
[2] Mentioned in
Aristophanes,
Peace 628; an adjective from
korw/nh "shearwater", a sea-bird, or "crow".
[3] The gloss is taken from the
scholia ad loc., with "raven-coloured" given as
koraki/wna.
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