σῦκον, Boeot.
τῦκον( Stratt. 47.5 ),τό,
A. fruit of the συκῆ,fig, Od. 7.121 , Hdt. 2.40 , etc.;βασίλεια ς. were a large kind, Philem. 241 ; to eat figs in the heat of the day was thought to cause fever, Pherecr. 80 , Ar. Fr. 463 , Nicopho 12 ;ξηρὰ ς. Pl. Lg. 845b : prov.,ὅσῳ διαφέρει σῦκα καρδάμων'as different as chalk from cheese', Henioch. 4.2 ;σύκῳ . . ς. οὐδὲ ἓν οὕτως ὅμοιον γέγονενPoet. ap. Cic. Att. 4.8b . 2 , cf. Herod. 6.60 ; τὰ σῦκα σῦκα . . ὀνομάζων
Luc. Hist.Conscr. 41
(cf.σκάφη); σῦκα αἰτεῖν, prov. forτρυφᾶν, Ar. V. 302 (lyr.);σῦκον χειμῶνος ζητεῖν, of afoolish enterprise, M.Ant. 11.33 .
2. ς. Αἰγύπτιον,fruit of κερωνία, Thphr. HP 4.2.4 , Od. 5 .
II. from its shape,a large warton the eyelids, Ar. Ra. 1247 , cf. Hp. Epid. 3.7 ; oftumoursin other places, Poll. 4.200 , Orib. Syn. 7.40 .
III. pudenda muliebria, Ar. Pax 1350 .