μύκης: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῠ], ητος (but Ion. gen. -εω Archil.47, acc. -ην Hecat.22 J. (-ῆν codd.), Nic.''Fr.''72.7; Dor. and Att. nom. pl.<br><span class="bld">A</span> μύκαι Epich.155, [[Theophrastus]] ''Sign.''42, Diocl.Fr.119; acc. pl. μύκας ''PSI''6.620.31 (iii B. C.), censured by Phryn.178; dat. pl. τοῖς μύκαις Diph.Siph. ap. Ath.2.62c), ὁ, [[mushroom]] or other [[fungus]], Epich. l. c., Antiph.188, 226.4, 227.11, Ephipp.27, Polioch.2.4, [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 1.1.11, ''PSI''l.c., Nic.''Al.''525, Dsc. 4.82, Paus.2.16.3.<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[any knobbed round body]], shaped like a mushroom,<br><span class="bld">1</span> [[chape]] or [[cap at the end of a scabbard]], Hecat. [[l.c.]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.64, Paus. [[l.c.]]<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[membrum virile]], Archil. [[l.c.]], [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[fleshy excrescence]], such as forms on wounds, Hp.''Morb.''2.50, Gal.17(1).703.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[excrescence]] on trees, [[Theophrastus|Thphr.]] ''[[Historia Plantarum|HP]]'' 4.14.3.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[stump of an olive]] cut down, ''IG''2.1055.43.<br><span class="bld">5</span> [[snuff of a lamp-wick]], Ar.''V.''262, [[Theophrastus]] ''Sign.'' [[l.c.]], Arat.976, Call.''Fr.''47, ''AP''5.262 (Agath.).<br><span class="bld">6</span> <b class="b3">μύκαι οἷς τὰ ἱμάτια βάπτουσι</b>, dub. sens. in Zopyr. ap. Orib.14.62.1.—Fem. only in Epich.l.c. (where however <b class="b3">οἷον αἰ μύκαι</b> is prob. cj.) and [[Theophrastus]] ''Sign.''l.c. (Prob. cogn. with μύξα A.)