λύκος [ῠ], ὁ,
wolf, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; πολιός
grisly,[
Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὀρέστεροι[
Refs 8th c.BC+]; the small Egyptian wolves mentioned by [
Refs 5th c.BC+] were perhaps
jackals: various kinds distinguished by [
Refs 3rd c.AD+] to see
a wolf, i. e.
to be struck dumb, as was vulgarly believed of any one at whom a wolf got the first look [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; λύκου πτερά, of things that are not, 'pigeon's milk', [
Refs]; ὡς λ. χανών, of vain expectation, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρίν κεν λ. οἶν ὑμεναιοῖ, of an impossibility, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὡς λύκοι ἄρν᾽ ἀγαπῶσιν, of treacherous or unnatural love, poetical cited in [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; λύκου βίον ζῆν, i. e. live by rapine, Prov. cited in [
Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ἐκ λύκου στόματος, of getting a thing
praeter spem, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τῶν ὤτων ἔχειν τὸν λύκον 'catch a Tartar', [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; λ. ἀετὸν φεύγει, of the inescapable, [
Refs 4th c.AD+]
II a kind of
daw, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; compare λύκιος.
III a fish, =καλλιώνυμος, [
Refs 1st c.BC+]
IV a kind of
spider, [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
V anything shaped like a hook:
V.1 a jagged bit for hard-mouthed horses, Latin
lupus, [
Refs 1st c.AD+]; compare λυκοσπάς.
V.2 hook or
knocker on a door, [
Refs 5th c.AD+]
V.3 flesh-hook, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
VI nickname of παιδερασταί, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
VII the flower of the iris, Philin. cited in [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
VIII a kind of
noose, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
IX a pastille used in dysentery, [
Refs 6th c.AD+]
X =ὀροβάγχη, variant in marginal of [
Refs 1st c.AD+]
XI an engine of war for defending gates, [
Refs 6th c.AD+]. (Cf. Sanskrit
vŕ[null]kas, Lithuanian
vi[ltilde]kas, Slavonic
vl[ucaron]k[ucaron], Gothic
wulfs.)
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