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Σελευκ-ίς , ίδος, ἡ, a kind of
A.woman's shoe from Seleucia in Syria, Poll.7.94, Hsch.
II. a drinking-cup, so named after Seleucus, Polem.Hist.57, Inscr.Délos 443 B b 72 (ii B.C.), Plu.Aem.33.
III. ς. τριήρης, a kind of ship, Id.Pomp.77.
IV. the realm of Seleucus, OGI219.4 (iii B.C.), 229.2 (iii B.C.), Str.16.2.4.
2. Adj. of part of Cappadocia, “Κ. τῆς Σελευκίδος λεγομένης” App.Syr.55.
V. a bird which eats locusts, the Rose-coloured Pastor, Pastor roseus, Plin.HN10.75, Gal.8.397, Ael.NA17.19, Zos.1.56.3, Hsch.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Strabo, Geography, 16.2.4
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 10.75
    • Plutarch, Aemilius Paullus, 33
    • Plutarch, Pompey, 77
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 17.19
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