σκορπί-ος, ὁ,
scorpion, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 169, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 290a, “Sammelb.” 1267.7 (1st c.AD), etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ὁ χερσαῖος[[ (see. below 11) 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 555a23: proverbial, ὑπὸ παντὶ λίθῳ σκορπίον φυλάσσεο 5th c.BC: Praxilla Lyrica 4; ἐν παντὶ σ. φρουρεῖ λίθῳ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 37 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also σκορπίον ὀκτώπουν ἐγείρεις 'let sleeping dogs lie', [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus; ὥσπερ ἔχις ἢ σ. ἠρκὼς τὸ κέντρον 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.52. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II a sea-fish, probably Scorpaena scrofa, [[ 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 261.9, Diocl.fragment 135, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 508b17, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.977f] Refs 4th c.BC+]; used (like the mugilis in Catull.15.19, [[ 1st c.AD: Juvenalis, D. Junius Poeta Latinus 10.317) to punish adulterers, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 173.21; uncertain meaning in LXX.1Ki.12.11. ] LXX+5th c.BC+]
__III scorpion furze, Genista acanthoclada, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 6.1.3, 6.4.1. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III.2 scorpion root, Doronicum caucasicum, [[[prev. work] 9.13.6. ] Refs]
__III.3 ={θηλυφόνον}, [[[prev. work] 9.18.2. ] Refs]
__IV the constellation [[ “Scorpio”, 4th-3rd c.BC(?): Cleostratus Poeta Philosophus 1, 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 85, 4th c.BC: Eudoxus Astronomus cited in 2nd c.BC: Hipparchus Astronomicus 1.2.20, 3rd c.BC: Eratosthenes Epicus “Καταστερισμοί” 7. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]