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ἔλλοψ , οπος, ὁ, ἡ, epith. of fish (exc. ἔλλοπι κούρᾳ, of Echo, Theoc. Syrinx 18), expld. as
A.dumb by Hsch. (also by δασεῖς, τραχεῖς, ποικίλοι), but perh. rather, scaly (cf. λεπίς): “ἔλλοπας ἰχθῦς” Hes.Sc.212; “ἔλλοπος μυνδοῦ δίκην” Lyc.1375:—also ἔλλοπος , Emp.117: or ἐλλός , “ἰχθύες ἐλλοί” Titanomach.Fr.4; “ἐλλοῖς ἰχθύσιν” S.Aj.1297.
II. as Subst., fish, in general, Nic.Al.481, Lyc.600, Opp.H.2.658, 3.55,89; fem., Lyc.796.
2. an unknown sea-fish, Arist.HA505a15, etc.; also ἔλοψ , Epich.71, Archestr.Fr.11.1, Matro Conv.69, Apio ap.Ath. 7.294f, Plu.2.979c; identified with ἱερὸς ἰχθῦς by Ael.NA8.28.
3. a serpent, Nic.Th.490.
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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