A.“ἐμυ_κησάμην” Ar.Nu.292, Theoc.16.37: used by Hom. once in pres. part., Od.10.413, elsewh. in Ep. aor. μύκον [υ^], Ep. pf. μέμυ_κα (also in A.Supp.352 (lyr.)): plpf. ἐμεμύκειν or “μεμύκειν” Od.12.395: Ep. iterat. μύκεσκε only in EM624.40:—prop. of oxen, low, bellow, ὁ δὲ μακρὰ μεμυκώς [ὁ ταῦρος] Il.18.580; “μεμυκὼς ἠΰτε ταῦρος” 21.237; “πόριες . . μυκώμεναι” Od.10.413, cf. A.l.c., E.Ba.738; of a calf, Theoc.l.c.; of Heracles in agony, E.HF870 (troch.: so comically, “ἔβλεψεν δριμὺ κἀμυκᾶτο” Ar.Ra.562); “οἷον μυκτὴρ μυκᾶται” Id.V.1488; “μάτηρ κεφαλὰν μυκήσατο παιδὸς ἑλοῖσα” Theoc.26.20; “ὥσπερ λέων μ.” Apoc.10.3.
2. of things, “πύλαι μύκον οὐρανοῦ” Il.5.749; “μέγα δ᾽ ἀμφὶ πύλαι μύκον” 12.460; of a shield, μέγα δ᾽ ἀμφὶ σάκος μύκε δουρὸς ἀκωκῇ rang, 20.260; of meat, ἀμφ᾽ ὀβελοῖσι μεμύκει bellowed upon the spits (a portent), Od.12.395; “μέμυκε δὲ γαῖα καὶ ὕλη” Hes.Op.508; “βροντῆς μυκησαμένης” Ar.Nu.292; “κόχλον ἑλὼν μυκήσατο κοῖλον” Theoc.22.75:—rare in Prose, Pl.R.396b, 615e, Arist.Mete.368a25.—An aor. Act., [“τυμπάνου] βαρὺ μυκήσαντος” AP6.220.11 (Diosc.). (Onomatopoeic word.)
