κυάνεος

English (LSJ)

α, ον, contr. κῠᾰνοῦς, ῆ, οῦν Pl.Ti.68c, etc., prob. in A.Pers.81 (lyr.), Euph.51.7 (cf.

   A κύανος 11):—made of κύανος (q.v.), κάπετος Il.18.564; δράκοντες 11.26, cf. 39, Hes.Sc.167.    II of the colour of κ., dark-blue, glossy, of the swallow, Simon.74; of the halcyon, Arist.HA616a15; of the skin of the porpoise, ib.566b12; of the deep sea, E.IT7, cf. Arist.Pr. 932a31; πόντου κ. δῖναι Xenarch.1.7; κ. χρῶμα Pl.l.c.; τὸ κ. ἐξ ἰσάτιδος καὶ πυρώδους Thphr.Sens.77.    2 generally, dark, black, of the mourning veil of Thetis, Il.24.94; of clouds, 5.345, 20.418, Od.12.75; of the brows of Zeus, Il.1.528; χαῖται 22.402; γενειάδες Od.16.176; ἄνδρες, of Africans, Hes.Op.527; γαῖα ψάμμῳ κυανέη (of the bottom of Charybdis) Od.12.243; κ. χθών, of Delos, Pi.Fr.87.4; κ. θάλαμος, of the chamber of Persephone, Sapph.119; φάλαγγες κ. dark masses of warriors, Il.4.282; κυάνεον Τρώων νέφος 16.66: metaph., Κῆρες κ. Hes.Sc.249; κ. δνόφος Simon.37.8; λόχμα Pi.O.6.40; Ἄιδης IG14.1389ii25. [ῡ, metri gr., in dactylic verse, Hom., etc.]