Κύριε, βοήθησον τὸν δοῦλον σου Νῖλον κτλ. → Lord, help your slave Nilos ... (mosaic inscription from 4th-cent. church in the Negev)
cypērŏs: i, m. (cypērum, i, n., Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 13), = κύπειρος>,
I a kind of rush, Plin. 21, 18, 70, §§ 117 and 118.