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ὕαιν-α^ [υ^], ἡ, prop. a fem. of ὗς:
I. the striped hyena, a carnivorous animal with a bristly mane like a hog (whence the name), Hyaena striata, Hdt.4.192, Arist.HA579b15, Ael.NA7.22, Opp.C.3.263; also called γλάνος, Arist.HA594a31; cf. κροκόττας.
2. a kind of antelope, Ael.NA15.15 (s.v.l.).
II. a sea-fish, Numen. ap. Ath.7.326f, Ael.NA13.27; also ὑαινίς , ίδος, ἡ, Epich.65; v. ὗς 11.
III. in Porph.Abst.4.16 ὑαίνας is most prob. an error for λεαίνας, as the corresponding masc. is λέοντες.
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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    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.192
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 13.27
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 15.15
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 7.22
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