συκέα: Difference between revisions

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