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μύκης [υ^], ητος (but Ion. gen. -εω Archil.47, acc. -ην Hecat.22 J. (-ῆν codd.), Nic.Fr.72.7; Dor. and Att. nom. pl.
A.“μύκαι” Epich.155, Thphr.Sign.42, Diocl.Fr.119; acc. pl. “μύκας” PSI6.620.31 (iii B. C.), censured by Phryn.178; dat. pl. “τοῖς μύκαις” Diph.Siph. ap. Ath.2.62c), ὁ, mushroom or other fungus, Epich. l. c., Antiph.188, 226.4, 227.11, Ephipp.27, Polioch.2.4, Thphr.HP1.1.11, PSIl.c., Nic.Al.525, Dsc. 4.82, Paus.2.16.3.
II. any knobbed round body, shaped like a mushroom,
1. chape or cap at the end of a scabbard, Hecat. l.c., Hdt.3.64, Paus. l.c.
2. membrum virile, Archil. l.c., Hsch.
3. fleshy excrescence, such as forms on wounds, Hp.Morb.2.50, Gal.17(1).703.
b. excrescence on trees, Thphr.HP4.14.3.
4. stump of an olive cut down, IG2.1055.43.
5. snuff of a lamp-wick, Ar.V.262, Thphr.Sign. l.c., Arat.976, Call.Fr.47, AP5.262 (Agath.).
6. μύκαι οἷς τὰ ἱμάτια βάπτουσι, dub. sens. in Zopyr. ap. Orib.14.62.1.— Fem. only in Epich.l.c. (where however οἷον αἰ μύκαι is prob. cj.) and Thphr.Sign.l.c. (Prob. cogn. with “μύξα” A.）
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, Wasps, 262
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.64
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