A.fruit of the συκῆ, fig, Od.7.121, Hdt.2.40, etc.; βασίλεια ς. were a large kind, Philem. 241; to eat figs in the heat of the day was thought to cause fever, Pherecr. 80, Ar.Fr.463, Nicopho 12; ξηρὰ ς. Pl.Lg.845b: prov., ὅσῳ διαφέρει σῦκα καρδάμων 'as different as chalk from cheese', Henioch.4.2; σύκῳ . . ς. οὐδὲ ἓν οὕτως ὅμοιον γέγονεν Poet. ap. Cic.Att.4.8b.2, cf. Herod.6.60; “τὰ σῦκα σῦκα . . ὀνομάζων” Luc.Hist.Conscr.41 (cf. σκάφη); σῦκα αἰτεῖν, prov. for τρυφᾶν, Ar.V.302(lyr.); σῦκον χειμῶνος ζητεῖν, of a foolish enterprise, M.Ant.11.33.
II. from its shape, a large wart on the eyelids, Ar.Ra.1247, cf. Hp.Epid.3.7; of tumours in other places, Poll.4.200, Orib.Syn.7.40.
III. pudenda muliebria, Ar.Pax1350.