λύκος [ῠ], ὁ,
wolf, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.156, 352 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πολιός grisly,[[ 10.334; κρατερώνυχες 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.218 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὀρέστεροι[[ [prev. work] 212; ὠμοφάγοι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.156; κοιλογάστορες 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 1041 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; the small Egyptian wolves mentioned by [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.67 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] were perhaps jackals: various kinds distinguished by [[ 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 3.293 ff.: proverbial λύκον ἰδεῖν] Refs 3rd c.AD+] to see a wolf, i. e. to be struck dumb, as was vulgarly believed of any one at whom a wolf got the first look [[(5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 336d), 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.22 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λύκου πτερά, of things that are not, 'pigeon's milk', [[ 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus ] Refs]; ὡς λ. χανών, of vain expectation, [[ 4th c.BC: Eubulus Comicus 15.11, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 337, 3rd c.BC: Euphro Comicus 1.31; λ. κεχηνώς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 629 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρίν κεν λ. οἶν ὑμεναιοῖ, of an impossibility, [[ [prev. author] “Pax” 1076, 1112, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.263 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὡς λύκοι ἄρν᾽ ἀγαπῶσιν, of treacherous or unnatural love, poetical cited in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 241d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λύκου βίον ζῆν, i. e. live by rapine, Prov. cited in [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 16.24.4 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἐκ λύκου στόματος, of getting a thing praeter spem, [[ 2nd c.AD: Zenobius Paroemiographus 3.48 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τῶν ὤτων ἔχειν τὸν λύκον 'catch a Tartar', [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Apollodorus Carystius Comicus 18, compare 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 30.20.8 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; λ. ἀετὸν φεύγει, of the inescapable, [[ 4th-5th c.AD: Diogenianus Paroemiographus 6.19; λ. περὶ φρέαρ χορεύει, of those engaged in vain pursuits, [prev. work] 21. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]