κύκνος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[swan]], [[Cycnus olor]], κύκνων δουλιχοδείρων <span class="bibl">Il.2.460</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Sc.</span>316</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>620a</span>, <span class="bibl">Eratosth.<span class="title">Cat.</span>25</span>, etc.; sacred to Apollo, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>870</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phd.</span>85b</span>, <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Ap.</span>5</span>: Com., βάτραχοι κ. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>207</span>; κύκνου δίκην τὸν ὕστατον μέλψασα θανάσιμον γόον <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>1444</span>: hence, metaph., [[minstrel]], [[bard]], AP7.19 (Leon.). </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> kind of ship, prob. from its prow being curved like a [[swan's]] neck, <span class="bibl">Nicostr.Com. 10</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> [[eyesalve]], [[eye-salve]], Gal.12.708, 759, etc. [ῡ by position in Ep.; ῠ <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>2.82</span>, <span class="bibl">Theoc.16.49</span> in pr. n. [[Κύκνος]].]</span>