κῠνάμυια [νᾰ], ἡ,
dog-fly, i.e. shameless fly, abusive epithet applied by Ares to Athena, and by Hera to Aphrodite, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.394, 421, compare 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 3.126a, 4.157a ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—later κυνόμυια, [[ 2nd c.BC: Ezekiel Poeta Judaeus “Exagoge - Mnemosyne” 138, “Anthologia Graeca” 11.265 (1st c.AD: Lucillius Epigrammaticus), 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 4.51, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Gall.” 31, etc.; ὦ γαστὴρ κυνόμυια “APl.” 1.9 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; of the plague of flies in Egypt, [[ LXX.Exo.8.21 (17), LXX.Psa.77(78).45. ] LXX]