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κηρίον , τό, ῾κηρός)
A.honeycomb, mostly in pl., h.Merc.559, Hes.Th. 597, Hdt.5.114, etc.; κ. καὶ λίβανον, as offerings, Supp.Epigr.3.774 (Crete, i B.C.): sg., Pl.R.552c, Theoc.19.2, IG5(2).514.14 (Lycosura, ii B.C.); “τὸ κ. τοῦ μέλιτος” LXX 1 Ki.14.27; used in Medicine, Hp. Morb.2.45, 3.17; παιδίον κηρίῳ βεβυσμένον having its mouth stopped with a piece of honeycomb, Ar.Th.506, cf. Sch. ad loc., Sor.1.86; “κ. σφηκῶν” Hdt.2.92: κηρία, τά, honey, Hippon.36, Aristo ap.Ath.2.38f.
2. metaph., of a book of poems, AP9.190: pl., title of Anthologies, Gell.Praef.6.
3. metaph., of anything pleasant, “τῆς ἐπιθυμίας τὸ κ.” Lib.Ep.112.1.
II. a cutaneous disease, = μελικηρίς, Dsc.2.135 (pl.), Gal.7.728, al.
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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