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λυ^κο-σπάς , άδος, ὁ, ἡ,
A.torn by wolves, epith. of bees, Nic.Th.742 (because generated from corpses of oxen torn by wolves, Sch. adloc.).
II. of horses, “Ἀτράκιον δἤπειτα λυκοσπάδα πῶλον ἐλαύνει” Call.Fr.474, where it may mean drawn by the bit (λύκος v.1), cf. Plu.2.641f, or ἀποσπασθεισαν ἀπὸ λύκου as expld. by Choerob. in Theod.1.287, cf. Plu. l. c. (where horses bitten by wolves are said to become speedier); but οἱ λ. were a breed of horses in lower Italy, = ἵπποι αἱ Ἐνετίδες, Phot., cf. Hsch., Ael.NA16.24.
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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