A.Procyon,Arat.450, Hipparch.2.2.13, etc.; but of Sirius, Gal.17(1).17.
2.πρόκυνες, οἱ,winds which precede the rising of Sirius,Adam.Vent.41.
II.spaniel-like flatterer, 'lap-dog',Phld.Rh.1.242S., prob. l. for πρόσκυνες in Hippias Erythr. I: but πικροὶΚαλλιμάχουπρόκυνες, a description of the Grammarians, snappers and snarlers,AP11.322 (Antiphan.).