Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.dog-like, X.Cyr.5.2.17 (v.l. for ὑϊκόν）“; τὸ κ. καὶ θηριῶδες τῶν ὀρέξεων” Plu.2.133b; κ. σπασμός unilateral facial paralysis, Cels.4.3.1, Gal.18(2).930; κ. καύματα heat of the dogdays, Polyaen.2.30.3: metaph., ὁ ἄνθρωπος κ. currish, churlish, LXX 1 Ki.25.3. Adv. -“κῶς, σπώμενοι” Heliod. ap. Orib.48.38 tit.; in doglanguage, opp. βοϊκῶς, etc., Porph.Abst.3.3.

II. Κυνικός, ὁ, Cynic, as the followers of the philosopher Antisthenes were called, from the gymnasium (Κυνόσαργες) where he taught, D.L.6.13; or from their resemblance to dogs in several respects, Diog.Cyn. ap. eund.6.60, Metrod.16, Polystr.p.20 W., Elias in Cat.111.2, etc.; “Κράτητι τῷ κ.” Men.117; κ. αἵρεσις, ἄσκησις, φιλοσοφία, Ph.1.352, J.AJ6.13.6, Jul.Or.6.187a; “παρρησία κ.” Plu.2.69c; “τὸ κ. τῆς παρρησίας” Id.Brut. 34. Adv. Comp. -ώτερον Id.2.601e.