σικύα
Βίων δύο ἔλεγε διδασκαλίας εἶναι θανάτου, τόν τε πρὸ τοῦ γενέσθαι χρόνον καὶ τὸν ὕπνον → Bion used to say that we have two teachers for death: the time before we were born and sleep | Bion said that there are two rehearsals for death: the time before being born and sleep
English (LSJ)
[ῠ], Ion. σῐκ-ύη, ἡ,
A bottle-gourd, bottle gourd, Lagenaria vulgaris, Arist.HA 616a22, Thphr.HP1.13.3, CP1.10.4.
B round gourd, Cucurbita maxima. 2 σικύα Ἰνδική,= κολοκύντη, Euthyd. ap. Ath.2.58f, cf. Menodor.ib.59a: but ς. distd. fr. κολοκύντη in Hellespontian dialect, Ath.2.59a. 3 = κολοκυνθίς, Hp.Mul.1.37; σ. πικρά Dsc.4.176. 4 gourd used as a calabash, Sammelb. 7202.20 (iii B.C.). II cupping-instrument, because it was shaped like the gourd, Crates Com.41, Hp.VM22, Aph.5.50, Pl.Ti.79e, Arist.Rh.1405b3, IG22.47.8,11.
German (Pape)
[Seite 880] ἡ, ion. σικύη, = πέπων, 1) die Pfebe od. Angurie, eine gurken- od. melonenähnliche Frucht, Plat. Tim. 79 e, die aber nur reif genossen ward, während man den σίκυος unreif verspeis'te; bes. eine baumhohe Art, Theophr. u. A. – Bei den Sp. der lange indische Kürbis; der runde hieß κολόκυνθα, Ath. II, 58 f. – 2) der Schröpfkopf, weil er von der Gestalt des länglichen Kürbisses war, cucurbita; Hippocr. Ar. Lys.
