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κόκκυξ , υ_γος, ὁ,
A.cuckoo, Hes.Op.486, Epich.164, Ar.Av.504, Arist. HA563b14, 618a8; sacred to Hera, Paus.2.17.4; ἐχειροτόνησάν με—κόκκυγές γε τρεῖς, i.e. three fellows who voted over and over again, Ar.Ach.598, cf. κόκκυγες: ἐπὶ ὑπονοηθέντων πλειόνων εἶναι καὶ ὀλίγων ὄντων, Hsch.; μῆλον κόκκυγος, = κοκκύμηλον, Nic.Fr.87.
2. stammerer, nickname of Battus, Sch.Pi.P.4.1.
II. a sea-fish, piper, Trigla cuculus, said to make a sound like cuckoo, Hp.Int.21, Arist. HA535b18, 598a15, Numen. ap. Ath.7.309f, Speus. ap. eund.7.324f, Opp.H.1.97.
III. = ὄλυνθος, a fig that ripens early, Nic. Th. 854.
IV. Medic., os coccygis, Ruf.Onom.114, Gal.2.762; but τρητὸς κ., = the whole os sacrum, Poll.2.183.
V. mark on a horse's shoulder, Hippiatr.14, 26, 115.
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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    • Aristophanes, Birds, 504
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 486
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.17.4
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 598
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