σῦκον,
Boeotian dialect τῦκον [[(5th c.BC: Strattis Comicus 47.5)] Refs 5th c.BC+], τό, fruit of the συκῆ, fig, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.121, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.40, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; βασίλεια σ. were a large kind, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 241 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; to eat figs in the heat of the day was thought to cause fever, [[ 5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 80, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 463, 5th-6th c.BC: Nicopho Comicus 12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ξηρὰ σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 845b: proverbial, ὅσῳ διαφέρει σῦκα καρδάμων] Refs 5th c.BC+] 'as different as chalk from cheese', [[ 4th c.AD: Heniochus Comicus 4.2 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]; σύκῳ.. σ. οὐδὲ ἓν οὕτως ὅμοιον γέγονεν poetical cited in [[ 1st c.BC: Cicero, M. Tullius Orator et Philosophus “Epistulae ad Atticum” 4.8b. 2, compare 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 6.60; τὰ σῦκα σῦκα.. ὀνομάζων 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 41 (compare σκάφη)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; σῦκα αἰτεῖν, proverbial for τρυφᾶν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 302 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σῦκον χειμῶνος ζητεῖν, of a foolish enterprise, [[ 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 11.33. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__2 σ. Αἰγύπτιον, fruit of κερωνία, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 4.2.4, “Od.” 5. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__II from its shape, a large wart on the eyelids, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1247, compare 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 3.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of tumours in other places, [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 4.200, 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus “Synopsis” 7.40. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]