κύκνος, ὁ,
swan, Cycnus olor, κύκνων δουλιχοδείρων [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.460, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 316, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 620a, 3rd c.BC: Eratosthenes Epicus “Καταστερισμοί” 25, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; sacred to Apollo, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 870, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 85b, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Apollinem” 5: Comedy texts, βάτραχοι κ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 207; κύκνου δίκην τὸν ὕστατον μέλψασα θανάσιμον γόον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1444 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence, metaphorically, minstrel, bard, [[ Anthologia Graeca 7.19 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II kind of ship, probably from its prow being curved like a swan's neck, [[ 4th c.BC: Nicostratus Comicus 10. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III eye-salve, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 12.708, 759, etc.] Refs 2nd c.AD+] [ῡ by position in Epic dialect; ῠ [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.82, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 16.49 in _proper name_ Κύκνος.] ] Refs 5th c.BC+]