[Meaning] ticks. The ones sucking out the blood of dogs.
*kunorai+stai/: kro/twnes. oi( tw=n kunw=n to\ ai(=ma e)kpipi/zontes.
Likewise or similarly in other lexica (see the references at
Photius kappa1217 Theodoridis), and cf. also in the
scholia to
Homer,
Odyssey 17.300, where this term appears in the pathetic description of Odysseus' faithful but neglected old dog Argos [
Myth,
Place] (web address 1). See also
kappa 2719.
An affliction of foxes as well as dogs: see the Aesop fable recounted in
Aristotle,
Rhetoric 1393b22ff.
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