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|Full diacritics=κῠνάμυια
|Medium diacritics=κυνάμυια
|Low diacritics=κυνάμυια
|Capitals=ΚΥΝΑΜΥΙΑ
|Transliteration A=kynámyia
|Transliteration B=kynamuia
|Transliteration C=kynamyia
|Beta Code=kuna/muia
|Definition=[<b class="b3">νᾰ], ἡ</b>, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">dog-fly</b>, i.e. <b class="b2">shameless fly</b>, abusive epith. applied by Ares to Athena, and by Hera to Aphrodite, <span class="bibl">Il.21.394</span>, <span class="bibl">421</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ath.3.126a</span>, <span class="bibl">4.157a</span>:—later κυνόμυια, <span class="bibl">Ezek.<span class="title">Exag.</span>138</span>, <span class="title">AP</span>11.265 (Lucill.), <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>4.51</span>, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Gall.</span>31</span>, etc.; ὦ γαστὴρ κυνόμυια <span class="title">APl.</span> 1.9; of the plague of flies in Egypt, <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ex.</span>8.21</span> (<span class="bibl">17</span>), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ps.</span>77(78).45</span>.</span>
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|lstext='''κῠνάμυια''': νᾰ, ἡ, [[κυνόμυια]], «σκυλλόμυγα», δηλ· ἀναιδὴς [[μυῖα]], ἐπίθετον ὑβριστικὸν ἀναιδῶν γυναικῶν, λεγόμενον ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἄρεως πρὸς τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν καὶ παρὰ τῆς Ἥρας πρὸς τὴν Ἀφροδίτην, Ἰλ. Φ. 394, 421· ― μεταγεν. συγγραφεῖς ἀπεδέξαντο τὸν ἀναλογώτερον τύπον [[κυνόμυια]], π.χ. Ἀνθ. Π. 11. 265. Αἰλ. π. Ζ. 4. 51, Λουκ. Ἀλεκτρ. 31, κτλ.· οὕτω, ὦ γαστὴρ [[κυνόμυια]] Ἀνθ. Πλαν. 9· ἀλλ’ ὁ ἀρχαιότερος [[τύπος]] [[πάλιν]] εὑρίσκεται ἐν Ἀθην. 126Α, 157Α· πρβλ. Λοβ. Φρύν. 689.
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{{bailly
|btext=ας (ἡ) :<br />mouche impudente.<br />'''Étymologie:''' [[κύων]], [[μυῖα]].
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{{Autenrieth
|auten=[[dog]]-[[fly]], an [[abusive]] epithet applied by [[Ares]] to Athēna, Il. 21.394.
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