For the headword see already kappa 2744, which concerns these objects and gives significant references. The first paragraph of the present entry is an expanded version of Aristophanes of Byzantium fr.76 Nauck.
[1] The Suda gives an otherwise unattested Greek word kru/bies, which the lexicographer took to be related to a stem indicating something secret or hidden (as in English 'cryptic'). The Latin translation in the Gaisford-Bernhardy edition evades the matter by leaving the word in Greek.
[2] For Asclepiades (of Tragilus, C4 BCE: OCD(4) s.v. 'Asclepiades(1)') see alpha 3407 and (esp.) alpha 4173, gamma 132, delta 1598. His writings survive only in fragments.
[3] Asclepiades seems to have regarded this otherwise unknown Kurbes or Kurbeus as the eponymous originator of this sort of stele.
[4] So the transmitted text, but this is actually fr.22 (Wehrli) of Pha(i)nias the Eresian, a pupil of Aristotle: see generally phi 73.
[5] A third/second century BCE scholar and historian, preserved only in fragments: see generally epsilon 2898.
[6] More accurately, the scholia on Aristophanes, Birds 1354 (resumed in para.3 below). For the 'axles' see alpha 2833.
[7] Here, for the second time in four lines, the noun ou)si/as is transmitted, but (as Adler notes, following Kuster) by a change of a single letter it can become qusi/as 'sacrifices'.
[8] Likewise in Zenobius (4.77), a compiler of proverbs in the second century CE, and doubtless the Suda's source here.
[9] In mythology the Corybantes accompanied Dionysus from infancy on and were known for their orgiastic dancing: see generally kappa 2114 (and cf. kappa 2115, kappa 2116); OCD(4) s.v..
[10] The Hellenistic scholar and historian Apollodorus of Athens, another writer surviving only in fragments; this one is FGrH 244 F107. See generally OCD(4) s.v. 'Apollodorus(6)'.