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περκνός , ή, ον,
A.dusky, dark in colour, of grapes when beginning to ripen, or of olives, Poll.1.61, 5.67 ; περκνὴν (prob. for πέρκην（“ . . ἐλάην” AP6.102 (Phil.) ; also “π. ἔχις” Arist.Mir.846b18, Nic.Th.129 ; “π. ἰχθύες” Marc.Sid.7 ; livid, Hp.VC19.
II. Subst., name of a kind of eagle, “αἰετὸν . . , μόρφνον θηρητῆρ᾽, ὃν καὶ περκνὸν καλέουσι” Il.24.316 (Aristarch. πέρκνον), cf. Arist.Mir.835a2, Lyc.260 ; = πλάγγος acc. to Arist.HA618b23. (Cf. πρακνόν, Skt. pŕṛśnis 'spotted', OIr. erc, Welsh erch 'speckled', 'dusky'.)
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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