κῆτος, εος, τό,
any sea-monster or huge fish, δελφῖνάς τε κύνας τε καὶ εἴ ποθι μεῖζον ἑλῃσι κῆτος [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.97, compare 5.421, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.147, 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 2.116 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of seals, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.446, 452 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of the monster to which Andromeda was exposed, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 121, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 556, “Th.” 1033 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the tunny, [[ 4th c.BC: Archestratus Epicus “fragment” 34.3. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 in Natural History, of the spouting cetacea, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 566b2, “PA” 669a8, 697a16. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II name of a constellation, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 354, 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus cited in 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 1.2.20. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]