κῆπος,
Doric dialectκᾶπος (also [[ “Inscription Cyprian dialect” 135.20 H.)] Refs], ὁ, garden, orchard, or plantation, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.129, 24.247, 338; πολυδένδρεος 4.737 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of any rich, highly cultivated region, as Ἀφροδίτας κᾶπος, i.e. Cyrene, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.24; Διὸς κ., i.e. Libya, [prev. work] 9.53 (but Διὸς κῆποι] Refs 5th c.BC+], also of heaven, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 320 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Φοίβου παλαιὸς κ., of the eastern sky,[[ [prev. work] 956, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 203b; compare Ὠκεανοῦ κ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 271); κ. Εὐβοίας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ Μίδεω κῆποι, in Macedonia, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.138 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the country round Panormus, [[ Callias Epigrammaticus Hist. 2 ] Refs]; the enclosure for the Olympic games, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 3.24 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν κ. the scholars of Epicurus, because he taught in a garden, [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 9.64, compare 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 10.10 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; οἱ Ἀδώνιδος κ., see at {Ἀδωνι; οἱ Ταντάλου κ}., proverbial of illusory pleasures, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 1.20.1: _metaphorically_, Χαρίτων νέμομαι κᾶπον, i.e. poetic art, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.27; ἐκ Μουσῶν κ. τινῶν.. δρεπόμενοι τὰ μέλη 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Ion” 534a; τοὺς ἐν τοῖς γράμμασι κ. σπείρειν [prev. author] “Phdr.” 276d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II a fashion of cropping the hair, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 2.29, 2nd c.AD: Aelius Dionysius Grammaticus “fragment” 230. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]