A.ape, monkey, Archil.89.3,91, S.Ichn. 122, Ar.Ach.120, Arist.HA502a17 : as fem., “πίθηκος μήτηρ” Babr.56; πίθηκον ἐνδυομένην putting on an ape's form, Pl.R.620c; cf. πιθήκη.
2. nickname for a trickster, jackanapes, Ar.Ach.907, Av.440, Ra.708, etc. ; αὐτοτραγικὸς π., of Aeschines, D.18.242.
3. prov., “ἀντὶ λέοντος π. γίγνεσθαι” Pl.R.590b; “ὑπὸ τῇ λεοντῇ πίθηκον περιστέλλειν” Luc.Philops.5; π. ἐν πορφύρᾳ 'borrowed plumes', Diogenian.7.94; ἐν πιθήκοις ὄντα δεῖ εἶναι π. 'in Rome we do as the Romans do', Apollod.Com.1.3 ; ὄνος ἐν πιθήκοις 'parmi les aveugles le borgne est roi', Men.402.8.
4. dwarf, Suid.
II. a ζῷον σελαχῶδες, Ael.NA12.27.