A.corn-crake, Rallus crex, or ruff, Machetes pugnax, τούτους (sc. λίθους)“ ἐτύκιζον αἱ κρέκες τοῖς ῥύγχεσιν” Ar.Av.1138, cf. Arist.PA695a22, Ael.NA4.5; sacred to Athena, Porph.Abst.3.5; [“ἡ ἶβις] μέγαθος ὅσον κ.” Hdt.2.76; a name of ill omen to the newly-married, Euph.4: hence δισάρπαγος κρέξ, of Helen, Lyc.513.
2. metaph., noisy braggart, Eup. 423.