πίθηκος [ῐ],
Doric dialect πίθᾱκος, ὁ, ape, monkey, [[ 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 89.3, 91, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ichn.” 122, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 120, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 502a17: as _feminine_, πίθηκος μήτηρ 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 56 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; πίθηκον ἐνδυομένην putting on an ape's form, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 620c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; compare πιθήκη.
__2 nickname for a trickster, jackanapes, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 907, “Av.” 440, “Ra.” 708, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αὐτοτραγικὸς π., of Aeschines, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.242. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 proverbial, ἀντὶ λέοντος π. γίγνεσθαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 590b; ὑπὸ τῇ λεοντῇ πίθηκον περιστέλλειν 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Philops.” 5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. ἐν πορφύρᾳ 'borrowed plumes', [[ 4th-5th c.AD: Diogenianus Paroemiographus 7.94 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]; ἐν πιθήκοις ὄντα δεῖ εἶναι π. 'in Rome we do as the Romans do', [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Apollodorus Comicus 1.3 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὄνος ἐν πιθήκοις 'parmi les aveugles le borgne est roi', [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 402.8. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__4 dwarf, [[ 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus ] Refs]
__II a ζῷον σελαχῶδες, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 12.27. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]