Ὑάκινθος [ῠᾰ], ὁ,
Hyacinthus, a Laconian youth, beloved by Apollo, who killed him by an unlucky cast of the discus, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1469 (Lyric poetry), 2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus 3.10.3, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 3.1.3: compare Ὑακίνθια. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B as appellative,
__B.I ὑάκινθος, ὁ, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.348, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.35.4 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; but ἡ in [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 94, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 6.8.2, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus, etc. (see. below)] Refs 7th c.BC+]:—wild hyacinth, bluebell, Scilla bifolia, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” [same place], “hymnus ad Cererem” 7, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 6.8.1, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 4.62. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.I.2 blue larkspur, Delphinium Ajacis, ὑ. σπαρτή [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 6.8.2 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; said to have sprung up from the blood of Hyacinthus or (accusative to others) of Telamonian Ajax: and the ancients thought they could decipher on the petals the initial letters AI, or the interj. AIAI,[[compare 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 3.6 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; hence the epithets γραπτά [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 10.28; αἰαστής 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “fragment” 74.31; πολύθρηνος [prev. author] “Th.” 902; πολύκλαυτος “IG” 14.607; cf. Pseudo-Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.73. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]