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ἰξός , ὁ,
A.oak-mistletoe, Hozanthus europaeus, Arist.GA715b30, Dsc. 3.89.
2. mistletoe-berry, Thphr.CP2.17.8.
II. birdlime prepared from the mistletoe-berry, E.Cyc.433; θηρευτὴς ἰ. AP5.99.
b. oak-gum, used for the same purpose, Ath.10.451d, cf. Plu.Cor.3, Philox. ap. Gal.13.742.
c. any sticky substance, Hp.Mul.1.74, IG 12.314.42 (ἱ-), 22.1673.63.
2. metaph., ἰ. ὀμμάτων of one who causes the eyes to be fixed upon him, Tim.Com.2; “ἐκφυγὼν τὸν ἰ. τὸν ἐν πράγματι” Luc.Hist.Conscr.57; “καθάπερ ἰξῷ τινι προσέχεται τοῖς τοιούτοις ἡ ψυχή” Id.Cat.14.
b. skinflint, miser, Ar.Fr.718. (Prob. ϝιξός, cf. Lat. viscum, viscus.）
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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