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κύων [ῠ], ὁ
and ἡ, both in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, the _masculine_ more frequently, _genitive_ κῠνός, _dative_ κῠνί, _accusative_ κύνα] Refs 8th c.BC+], vocative κύον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.423, κύων 5th-6th c.BC: Archippus Comicus 6: _plural_, _nominative_ κύνες, _genitive_ κυνῶν, _dative_ κυσί 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.272, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+], Epic dialect κύνεσσι [[ 1.4, _accusative_ κύνας] Refs]:—dog, bitch, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of shepherds' dogs, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.183, 12.303 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; watch-dogs, [[ 22.66 ] Refs]; but in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] more frequently of hounds, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.338, +others; κυσὶ θηρευτῇσι 11.325; κύνε εἰδότε θήρης 10.360 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; later, when of hounds, mostly in feminine, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 8, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 18, etc.; κ. Λάκαινα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 106, S.[same place], 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 10.1, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 608a27, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Μολοττικαὶ κ. Alexis Hist. cited in [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 12.54o d, etc.; but Ἰνδικοί 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Generatione Animalium” 746a34, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.192: proverbial, κυσὶν πεινῶσιν οὐχὶ βρώσιμα] Refs 5th c.BC+] 'not fit for a dog', [[ “Comica Adespota” 1205.4; χεῖρον ἐρεθίσαι γραῦν ἢ κύνα 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 802 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; κύνα δέρειν δεδαρμένην 'flog a dead horse', [[ 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 179 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ κ. κατακειμένη ἐν τῇ φάτνῃ 'dog in the manger', [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Ind.” 30, +others] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; χαλεπὸν χορίω κύνα γεῦσαι it's ill to let a dog 'taste blood', [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 10.11 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; νή or μὰ τὸν κύνα was a favourite oath of Socrates, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 22a (cf. Scholia), “Grg.” 482b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; used familiarly at Athens, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 83 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἷς ἦν μέγιστος ὅρκος.. κύων, ἔπειτα χήν· θεοὺς δ᾽ ἐσίγων, of primitive men, [[ 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 231. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __II as a word of reproach, frequently in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] of women, to denote shamelessness or audacity; applied by Helen to herself, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.344, 356; by Iris to Athena, 8.423; by Hera to Artemis, 21.481 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: of the maids in the house of Odysseus, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.338, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]: later, in a coarse sense, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1402 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ῥαψῳδὸς κ., of the Sphinx, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 391, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 236 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of men, κακαὶ κ. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.623; implying recklessness, 8.299, 527, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.248, 22.35 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also of offensive persons, compared to yapping dogs, [[ LXX.Psa.21(22).17, NT.Phil.3.2 ] LXX+NT]; κ. λαίθαργος, ={λαθροδήκτης}, metaphorically, of a person, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 885, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 555: proverbial, μὴ δῶτε τὸ ἅγιον τοῖς κ. NT.Matt.7.6. ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__II.2 metaphorically, of persons, watch-dog, guardian, τῶν σταθμῶν κ., of Agamemnon, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 896 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; δωμάτων κ., of Clytemnestra,[[ [prev. work] 607, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1023. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3 of the Cynics, ἀρέσκει τούτοις κυνῶν μεταμφιέννυσθαι βίον [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Sto.Herc.” 339.8 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]: hence, Cynic philosopher, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1411a24, “Anthologia Graeca” 7.65 (Antip.), 413 ([prev. author]), 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.717c, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 5.216b, epigram cited in 3rd c.AD(?): Diogenes Laertius 6.19, 60 ] Refs 4th c.BC+], Baillet Inscriptions des tombeaux des rois [[ 172. ] Refs]
__III frequently in Mythology of the servants, agents or watchers of the gods, Διὸς πτηνὸς κύων, of the eagle, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1022, compare “Ag.” 136 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 884 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the griffins, Ζηνὸς ἀκραγεῖς κ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 803 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the Furies, μετάδρομοι.. πανουργημάτων ἄφυκτοι κ. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1388 (Lyric poetry), compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 924, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 383 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Pan is the κύων of Cybele, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 96: 4th-5th c.BC: Pythagoras Philosophus, Περσεφόνης κύνες] Refs 5th c.BC+], of the planets, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Fragmenta” 196: so Comedy texts, Ἡφαίστου κ.] Refs 4th c.BC+], of sparks, [[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 149.16 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of various mythical beings, as Cerberus, κ. Ἀΐδαο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.368, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.623, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.2.2; Harpies, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.289 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of Hecate, in Mithraic worship, [[ 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “de Abstinentia - Porphyrii Opuscula” 4.16 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; of the Βάκχαι, Λύσσας κ. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 977 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Λέρνας κ., of the hydra, [[ [prev. author] “HF” 420 (Lyric poetry)] Refs]; of a great fish, Τρίτωνος κ. [[ 3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 34. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__IV dog-fish or shark, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.96, compare 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 68, 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 161, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 566a31 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κ. ἄγριος, κ. γαλεός and κ. κεντρίτης or κεντρίνη, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Oppianus Anazarbensis Epicus “Halieutica - Poetae Bucolici et Didactici” 1.373, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 1.55 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ξιφίας κ., of the sword-fish, [[ 4th c.BC: Anaxippus Comicus 2.3. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__V = {σείριος} (which see), dog-star, i.e. the hound of Orion, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.29; in full, σειρίου κυνὸς δίκην 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 803, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 967; κυνὸς ψυχρὰν δύσιν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 432.11; πρὸ τοῦ κυνός 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 147 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μετὰ κυνὸς ἐπιτολήν, περὶ κ. ἐ., [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 361b35, “HA” 602a26; ἐπὶ κυνί [prev. work] 600a4, Syngr. cited in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 35.13; ὑπὸ κύνα 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 547a14, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 19.109; περὶ κύνα 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 3.3.3; μετὰ κύνα [prev. author] “HP” 1.9.5 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; also of the whole constellation, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 327, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 17(1).17. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__VI the ace, the worst throw at dice, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 9.100, 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1289.63. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__VII frenum praeputii, [[ 2nd c.AD: Antyllus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 50.3.1 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: with pun on the proverbial cited in Pherecr. [prev. cited] (above [[ 1), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 158 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with pun on significationsee, [[“Anthologia Graeca” 5.104 (Marc. argument). ] Refs]
__VIII fetlock of a horse, [[ Hippiatr. 77. ] Refs]
__IX unilateral facial paralysis, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 8.573. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__X ={ἀπομαγδαλία}, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus cited in 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 1857.19. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__XI ξυλίνη κ., ={κυνόσβατος}, Oracle texts cited in Did cited in [[ 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 2.70c. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__XII piece in the game of πόλεις, [[ 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 56.3 (uncertain)] Refs 5th c.BC+]. (Cf. Sanskrit śvā, genitive śúnas, Lithuanian šuõ, genitive šuñs, Latin canis, Gothic hunds (κύων), etc.)
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