πολῠ-κέφᾰλος, ον,
many-headed, θηρίον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 588c; σοφιστής [prev. author] “Sph.” 240c, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 769b27 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of plants, interpolated in [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.152] Refs 1st c.AD+]; π. στρέβλα (with allusion to [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “R.” [same place]) LXX.4Mac.7.14 ] LXX+5th c.BC+]; νόμος π., a celebrated air on the flute, so called from its expressing the hissing of the serpents round the Gorgon's head, [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1133d. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]