κόκκυξ
Μισῶ γε μέντοι χὤταν ἐν κακοῖσί τις ἁλοὺς ἔπειτα τοῦτο καλλύνειν θέλῃ → I hate it when someone is caught in the midst of their evil deeds and tries to gloss over them
English (LSJ)
ῡγος, ὁ,
A cuckoo, Hes.Op.486, Epich.164, Ar.Av.504, Arist. HA563b14, 618a8; sacred to Hera, Paus.2.17.4; ἐχειροτόνησάν με—κόκκυγές γε τρεῖς, i.e. three fellows who voted over and over again, Ar.Ach.598, cf. κόκκυγες· ἐπὶ ὑπονοηθέντων πλειόνων εἶναι καὶ ὀλίγων ὄντων, Hsch.; μῆλον κόκκυγος, = κοκκύμηλον, Nic.Fr.87. 2 stammerer, nickname of Battus, Sch.Pi.P.4.1. II a sea-fish, piper, Trigla cuculus, said to make a sound like cuckoo, Hp.Int.21, Arist. HA535b18, 598a15, Numen. ap. Ath.7.309f, Speus. ap. eund.7.324f, Opp.H.1.97. III = ὄλυνθος, a fig that ripens early, Nic. Th. 854. IV Medic., os coccygis, Ruf.Onom.114, Gal.2.762; but τρητὸς κ., = the whole os sacrum, Poll.2.183. V mark on a horse's shoulder, Hippiatr.14, 26, 115.
