φῦκος
ἢ τοὺς πότους ἐρεῖς δῆλον ὅτι καὶ τὰ δεῖπνα καὶ ἐσθῆτα καὶ ἀφροδίσια, καὶ δέδιας μὴ τούτων ἐνδεὴς γενόμενος ἀπόλωμαι. οὐκ ἐννοεῖς δὲ ὅτι τὸ μὴ διψῆν τοῦ πιεῖν πολὺ κάλλιον καὶ τὸ μὴ πεινῆν τοῦ φαγεῖν καὶ τὸ μὴ ῥιγοῦν τοῦ ἀμπεχόνης εὐπορεῖν; → There you'll go, talking of drinking and dining and dressing up and screwing, worrying I'll be lost without all that. Don't you realize how much better it is to have no thirst, than to drink? to have no hunger, than to eat? to not be cold, than to possess a wardrobe of finery? (Lucian, On Mourning 16)
English (LSJ)
εος, τό,
A seaweed, wrack, Il.9.7; ὄστρεια . . φῦκος ἠμφιεσμένα Alex.110.2; differing from βρύον in size, Arist.HA603a17, cf. Thphr.HP4.6.2: Ep. dat. pl. φύκεσσι Alcm.6: φ. θαλάσσιον οὖλον orchella-weed, Roccella tinctoria, Dsc.4.99; called φ. πόντιον in Thphr.HP4.6.4; φ. θ. πλατύ peacock's tail, Padina mediterranea, Dsc. l. c.; φ. ὑπόμηκες και' ὑποφοινικίζον Nitrophyllum punctatum, ibid.; φ. ὅμοιον τῇ ἀγρώστει mattress grass-weed, Zostera marina, Thphr.HP4.6.6; φ. πλατύφυλλον, = πράσον 2, ib. 2; φ. τριχόφυλλον ὥσπερ τὸ μάραθον, Cystoseira foeniculosa, ib.3. 2 sedge or weed growing in a lake, Nic.Al.576. II orchil, prepared from φῦκος 1.1 and used as rouge by Greek women, Ar.Fr.320.5, Theoc.15.16, IG5(1).1390.22 (Andania, i B. C.), Alciphr.1.33. III = φυκίς, Gloss.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1313] τό, Meertang, Seegras, zuerst Il. 9, 7; von βρύον nur der Größe nach verschieden, Arist. H. A. 8, 20 u. Theophr.; Diosc.; Antiphil. 1 (IX, 415). – Auch die Schminke, die aus einer purpurrothen Art des Meertanges bereitet wurde, mit der die Griechinnen die Wangen färbten, um ihnen die Farbe ξανθός zu geben; B. A. 258; E. M.
