Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Cyănus

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（κύανος). A dark-blue substance supposed to be blue steel, mentioned by Homer and Hesiod as forming a part of works of metal—e. g. on Agamemnon's breastplate ( Il. xi. 24) and on the shield of Heracles (Sc. Her. 143). The house of Alcinoüs had a cornice or frieze of κύανος ( Od. vii. 87). In Theophrastus it is lapis lazuli (Lapid. 31). See Merriam's note on Od. vii. 87, in his Phaeacians of Homer (N. Y. 1880).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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