δορκάς, άδος [ᾰ], ἡ,
(δέρκομαι, δέδορκα) an animal of the deer kind (so called from its large bright eyes), in Greece, roe, Cervus capreolus, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 699, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; in Syria and Africa, gazelle, Antilope dorcas, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.192 (in form ζορκάς), 7.69.] Refs 5th c.BC+]—Other forms:—δόρξ, δορκός, ἡ, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 376 (probably), 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Lavacrum Palladis” 91, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Am.” 16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: δόρκος, ὁ, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.75, 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 2.315, 3.3 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]: δόρκων, ωνος, ὁ, Palamed. cited in [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 11.397a, LXX.Cant.2.17, 3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristophanes Byzantinus Philosophus “Historiae Animalium Epitome subiunctis Aeliani Timothei aliorumque eclogis - pars” 3.15 ] LXX+3rd c.BC+]: ζορκάς (see. above): ζόρξ, [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Dianam” 97, “fragment” 239, 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 42 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: ἴορκος, [[ 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 2.296, 3.3. (δόρκος and ἴορκος are distinguished from δορκάς.) ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]