σκύμν-ος, ὁ
(and ἡ, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1493 (Lyric poetry))] Refs 5th c.BC+], cub. whelp, especially lion's whelp, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.319; in full, σ. λέοντος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.32, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1223, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1431, compare “Eq.” 1039; λεαίνης 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 987 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also of other animals, σ. λύκων [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 699; λυγγός 6th c.BC: Lasus Lyricus 3 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; τῆς ἄρκτου, τῆς ἐλέφαντος, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 571b30, 578a22; ἀλώπεκος 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lycurgus” 18. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 in poets also of men, Ἀχίλλειος σ. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andromache” 1170 (_anapaest meter_), compare “Rh.” 381 (_anapaest meter_) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of women, [[ [prev. author] “Or.” 1213, 1387 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs]