κυάνεος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=α, ον, contr. κῠᾰνοῦς, ῆ, οῦν <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Ti.</span>68c</span>, etc., prob. in <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>81</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">Euph.51.7</span> (cf. <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> κύανος <span class="bibl">11</span>):—made of [[cyanos]] ([[κύανος]]) (q.v.), [[κάπετος]] <span class="bibl">Il.18.564</span>; δράκοντες <span class="bibl">11.26</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">39</span>, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Sc.</span>167</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> of the colour of [[cyanos]], [[dark-blue]], [[glossy]], of the [[swallow]], <span class="bibl">Simon.74</span>; of the halcyon, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>616a15</span>; of the skin of the porpoise, ib.<span class="bibl">566b12</span>; of the [[deep]] sea, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IT</span>7</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pr.</span> 932a31</span>; πόντου κ. δῖναι <span class="bibl">Xenarch.1.7</span>; κ. [[χρῶμα]] Pl.l.c.; τὸ κ. ἐξ ἰσάτιδος καὶ πυρώδους <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Sens.</span>77</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> generally, [[dark]], [[black]], of the mourning veil of Thetis, <span class="bibl">Il.24.94</span>; of clouds, <span class="bibl">5.345</span>, <span class="bibl">20.418</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.12.75</span>; of the brows of Zeus, <span class="bibl">Il.1.528</span>; χαῖται <span class="bibl">22.402</span>; γενειάδες <span class="bibl">Od.16.176</span>; [[ἄνδρες]], of Africans, <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>527</span>; <b class="b3">γαῖα ψάμμῳ κυανέη</b> (of the bottom of Charybdis) <span class="bibl">Od.12.243</span>; κυανέα [[χθών]], of [[Delos]], τηλέφαντον κυανέας χθονὸς ἄστρον = far-shining [[star]] of the [[blue]] [[land]] <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">Fr.</span>87.4</span>; κυάνεος [[θάλαμος]], of the [[chamber]] of [[Persephone]], Sapph.119; [[φάλαγγες κυάνεαι]] = [[dark]] masses of [[warrior]]s, <span class="bibl">Il.4.282</span>; κυάνεον Τρώων νέφος <span class="bibl">16.66</span>: metaph., Κῆρες κ. <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Sc.</span>249</span>; κ. [[δνόφος]] <span class="bibl">Simon.37.8</span>; [[λόχμα]] <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>6.40</span>; [[Ἄιδης]] <span class="title">IG</span>14.1389ii25. [ῡ, metri gr., in dactylic verse, Hom., etc.]</span>