Achthophoron: bastazonta. kai paroimia: Ohus ouk an araint' oud' hekaton Aiguptioi. pollachou gar achthophorountas tous Aiguptious memnêntai.
[1] Likewise -- an adjective glossed with a present participle -- in other lexica. The headword, masculine/feminine accusative singular of this adjective, must be quoted from somewhere.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 1406 (of corpses and chariots: web address 1 below), with scholion.
[3] cf. e.g.
Aristophanes,
Birds 1133. Passages such as these appear to reflect awareness of the Pyramids and other Egyptian monuments, as transmitted in book 2 of
Herodotus (see esp. 2.124.2-3, 2.136.3-4); cf.
alpha 3819.
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