κηρίον, τό, κηρός
) honeycomb, mostly in plural, [[ “hymnus ad Mercurium” 559, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 597, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.114, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κ. καὶ λίβανον, as offerings, [[ “Supp.epigram” 3.774 (Crete, 1st c.BC): _sing._, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 552c, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 19.2, “IG” 5(2).514.14 (Lycosura, 2nd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ κ. τοῦ μέλιτος [[ LXX.1Ki.14.27 ] LXX]; used in Medicine, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ νούσων” 2.45, 3.17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παιδίον κηρίῳ βεβυσμένον having its mouth stopped with a piece of honeycomb, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 506, cf. Scholia (at [prev. work]), 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.86; κ. σφηκῶν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.92: κηρία, τά ] Refs 5th c.BC+], honey, [[ 6th c.BC: Hipponax Iambographus 36, 1st c.BC(?): Aristo Epigrammaticus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 2.38f. ] Refs 6th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, of a book of poems, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 9.190: _plural_, title of Anthologies, 2nd c.AD: Gellius, Aulus Grammaticus Latinus “Praef.” 6. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 metaphorically, of anything pleasant, τῆς ἐπιθυμίας τὸ κ. [[ 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Epistulae” 112.1. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__II a cutaneous disease, ={μελικηρίς}, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 2.135 (_plural_), 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 7.728, +others ] Refs 1st c.AD+]