βόμβυξ
From LSJ
ἐπάμεροι· τί δέ τις; τί δ' οὔ τις; σκιᾶς ὄναρ ἄνθρωπος → Neverlasting: What is a somebody? What is a nobody? You are a dream of a shadow | Creatures of a day. What is a someone, what is a no one? Man is the dream of a shade.
English (LSJ)
ῡκος, ὁ,
A silk-worm, Arist.HA ap.Ath.7.352f. b insect like a wasp, Hsch. 2 silk garment, Alciphr.1.39. II deeptoned flute, A.Fr.57.3, Arist.Aud.800b25, Poll.4.82, Plu.2.713a. 2 cap of a flute, Poll.4.70. 3 lowest note on the flute, Arist.Metaph. 1093b3:—hence Comp. βομβυκέστερος, deeper in tone, Nicom.Harm. 11. III Lacon., = στάμνος, Hsch., AB1354.
