κῆρυξ, ῡκος, ὁ,
Aeolic dialect κᾶρυξ [ᾱ] [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 20a. 2, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 8.1 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]:—but κήρῡκος, ου, ὁ, [[ “Etymologicum Magnum” 775.26 ] Refs]: (κηρύσσω):— herald, pursuivant: generally, public messenger, envoy, κ. λιγύφθογγοι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.50, +others; κηρύκων, οἳ δημιοεργοὶ ἔασιν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.135; κ. Διῒφίλοι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.517; κ., Διὸς ἄγγελοι ἠδὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν 1.334 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; θεῶν κ., of Hermes, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 80, compare “Th.” 939, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 515, “Ch.” 124: distinguished from πρέσβεις] Refs 8th c.BC+], as being messengers between nations at war, [[Scholia 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.29, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 727, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 941a, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 12.4: used interchangeably with ἀπόστολος, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.21 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: as proper name of a family at Athens, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.53, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.116, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.38.3, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 8.103; functioning as μάγειροι at festivals, Clidem. 3, 17; Κηρυκίδαι 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__b as feminine, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 8.1, 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 4.11. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 crier, who made proclamation and kept order in assemblies, etc., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 42f; ὁ κ. ἀνεῖπεν 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.36, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ τῶν μυστῶν κ., at Eleusis, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 2.4.20, compare “SIG” 845 (Eleusis, 3rd c.AD), 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 2.33.4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]