Ὑάκινθος [ῠᾰ],ὁ,
A. Hyacinthus,a Laconian youth, beloved by Apollo, who killed him by an unlucky cast of the discus, E. Hel. 1469 (lyr.), Apollod. 3.10.3 , Paus. 3.1.3 : cf.Ὑακίνθια.
B. as Appellat.,
I. ὑάκινθος,ὁ, Il. 14.348 , Paus. 1.35.4 ; butἡin Sapph. 94 , Thphr. HP 6.8.2 , Theoc. , etc. (v. infr.):—wild hyacinth, bluebell, Scilla bifolia,
Il. l. c., h.Cer. 7 , Thphr. HP 6.8.1 , Dsc. 4.62 .
2. blue larkspur, Delphinium Ajacis,
ὑ. σπαρτή
Thphr. HP 6.8.2
; said to have sprung up from the blood of Hyacinthus or (acc. to others) of Telamonian Ajax: and the ancients thought they could decipher on the petals the initial letters AI, or the interj. AIAI, cf. Mosch. 3.6 ; hence the epithets γραπτά
Theoc. 10.28
; αἰαστής
Nic. Fr. 74.31
; πολύθρηνος