πίθηκος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῐ], Dor. [[πίθακος]], ὁ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[ape]], [[monkey]], Archil.89.3,91, S.Ichn. 122, Ar.Ach.120, Arist.HA502a17: as fem., πίθηκος [[μήτηρ]] Babr.56; [[πίθηκον ἐνδυομένην]] = [[put]]ting on an [[ape]]'s [[form]], Pl.R.620c; cf. [[πιθήκη]].<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[nickname]] for a [[trickster]], [[jackanapes]], Ar.Ach.907, Av.440, Ra.708, etc.; [[αὐτοτραγικὸς πίθηκος]] = [[a very ape of tragedy]] (of [[Aeschines]]), D.18.242.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[proverb|prov.]], [[ἀντὶ λέοντος πίθηκον γίγνεσθαι]] = [[become]] a [[monkey]] [[instead]] of a [[lion]] Pl.R.590b; ὑπὸ τῇ λεοντῇ πίθηκον περιστέλλειν Luc.Philops.5; [[πίθηκος ἐν πορφύρᾳ]] '[[borrowed plumes]]', Diogenian.7.94; [[ἐν πιθήκοις ὄντα δεῖ εἶναι πίθηκον]] = [[being among monkeys one has to be a monkey]], '[[when in Rome, do as the Romans do]]', Apollod.Com.1.3; [[ὄνος ἐν πιθήκοις]] = [[in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king]], [[in the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king]], [[in the valley of the blind, the one-eyed man is king]], Men.402.8.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[dwarf]], Suid.<br><span class="bld">II</span> a [[σελαχώδης|σελαχῶδες]] [[ζῷον]], Ael.NA12.27.