συκέα: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, only Dor. (v. [[συκία]]), Ep. nom. pl. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> συκέαι <span class="bibl">Od.7.116</span>, acc. συκέας <span class="bibl">24.341</span> (both disyll.); Ion. acc. sg. συκέην <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.193</span>, <span class="bibl">4.23</span>, gen. pl. συκέων <span class="bibl">1.193</span>; elsewh. only in contr. or analogical forms from [[συκῆ]] (Ep. and Ion. nom. συκῆ <span class="bibl">Od.24.246</span>, <span class="bibl">Archil.19</span>, acc. συκῆν <span class="bibl">Hippon.34</span>), <span class="title">IG</span>12.313.163, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ec.</span>708</span>, etc.:—[[fig tree]], [[Ficus carica]], Hom. only in Od.; συκέαι γλυκεραί <span class="bibl">7.116</span>; for various kinds, v. <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span> 1.3.1</span>, <span class="bibl">3.9.3</span>, <span class="bibl">4.2.3</span>, <span class="bibl">4.4.4</span>, <span class="bibl">Ath.3.74c</span> sq.; <b class="b3">ἱερὰ συκέα</b> a suburb of [[Eleusis]], where [[Demeter]] first produced the [[fig tree]], <span class="title">IG</span> l.c., <span class="bibl">Paus. 1.37.2</span>, <span class="bibl">Ath.3.74d</span>, <span class="bibl">Philostr.<span class="title">VS</span>2.20.3</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> <b class="b3">συκέα Αἰγυπτία</b>,= [[κερωνία]], <span class="bibl">Thphr. <span class="title">HP</span>1.11.2</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">συκέα περὶ τὴν Ἴδην</b>, [[Amelanchier]], [[Amelanchias vulgaris]], ib.<span class="bibl">3.17.4</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> = [[χαμαισύκη]], Dsc.4.169. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> [[banyan]], [[Ficus bengalensis]], Thphr <span class="title">HP</span> 4.4.4. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> = [[σῦκον]] 1, [[fig]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Av.</span>590</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> a [[tar]] or [[resin]] in [[Aleppo]] [[pine]], <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span>3.9.3</span>, <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>16.44</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> a kind of [[spurge]],= [[πέπλιον]], Ps.-Dsc.4.168, <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span>27.119</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">V</span> = [[σῦκον]] ''ΙΙ'', [[excrescence]] on the body, Dsc.2.170, <span class="bibl">Poll.4.203</span>, <span class="title">Hippiatr.</span> 82. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">VI</span> a [[seaweed]], <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">HP</span> 4.6.2</span>.</span>