λύκειος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῠ], ον<, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">El.</span>7</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Rh.</span>208</span> (but [[λυκεία]] ([[quod vide|q.v.]]) as [[substantive]] in Plb.):—<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> of or [[belong]]ing to a [[wolf]], [[δορά]] E.l.c., etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[Λύκειος]] (written Λύκηος <span class="title">Milet.</span>1(7) No.282 (i B.C.)), [[epithet]] of Apollo, either as [[λυκοκτόνος]] ([[quod vide|q.v.]]), or as [[the Lycian god]] (v. [[Λυκηγενής]], [[Λύκιος]]), or (fr. [[Λύκη]]) as [[the god of light]]: Λύκει' Ἄπολλον <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1257</span>; εὐμενὴς δ' ὁ Λ. ἔστω <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Supp.</span>686</span> (lyr.); in <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Th.</span>145</span> (lyr.) there is a play upon the doubtful meanings, <b class="b3">Λύκει' ἄναξ, λύκειος γενοῦ στρατῷ δαΐῳ</b>, <span class="title">Lycean</span> lord, be [[a very wolf]] to the enemy; so <b class="b3">τοῦ λυκοκτόνου θεοῦ ἀγορὰ Λύκειος</b> (this [[ἀγορά]] being [[an open place]] in Argos near the temple of Apollo [[Λύκειος]]) S.l.c.; cf. [[Λύκειον]]. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[epithet]] of Pan, <span class="title">IG</span>5(2).93 (Tegea). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> [[Λύκειος]], [[ὁ]] (sc. [[μήν]]), a month at Epidaurus Limera, ib.(1).932; [[Λύκεος]], at Lamia (Thess.), ib.9(2).75.18, etc.</span>