II. of the colour of κ., dark-blue, glossy, of the swallow, Simon.74; of the halcyon, Arist.HA616a15; of the skin of the porpoise, ib.566b12; of the deep sea, E.IT7, cf. Arist.Pr. 932a31; “πόντου κ. δῖναι” Xenarch.1.7; κ. χρῶμα Pl.l.c.; “τὸ κ. ἐξ ἰσάτιδος καὶ πυρώδους” Thphr.Sens.77.
2. generally, dark, black, of the mourning veil of Thetis, Il.24.94; of clouds, 5.345, 20.418, Od.12.75; of the brows of Zeus, Il.1.528; “χαῖται” 22.402; “γενειάδες” Od.16.176; ἄνδρες, of Africans, Hes.Op.527; γαῖα ψάμμῳ κυανέη (of the bottom of Charybdis) Od.12.243; κ. χθών, of Delos, Pi.Fr.87.4; κ. θάλαμος, of the chamber of Persephone, Sapph.119; φάλαγγες κ. dark masses of warriors, Il.4.282; “κυάνεον Τρώων νέφος” 16.66: metaph., “Κῆρες κ.” Hes.Sc.249; “κ. δνόφος” Simon.37.8; “λόχμα” Pi.O.6.40; “Ἄιδης” IG14.1389ii25. [υ_, metri gr., in dactylic verse, Hom., etc.]
