- συκέα
- σῡκέα, ἡ, only [dialect] Dor. (v. συκία), [dialect] Ep. nom. pl.A
συκέαι Od.7.116
, acc.συκέας 24.341
(both disyll.); [dialect] Ion. acc. sg.συκέην Hdt.1.193
, 4.23, gen. pl.συκέων 1.193
; elsewh. only in [var] contr. or analogical forms from [full] συκῆ ([dialect] Ep. and [dialect] Ion. nom.συκῆ Od.24.246
, Archil.19, acc.συκῆν Hippon.34
), IG12.313.163, Ar.Ec.708, etc.:—fig-tree, Ficus Carica, Hom. only in Od.;σ. γλυκεραί 7.116
; for various kinds, v. Thphr.HP 1.3.1, 3.9.3, 4.2.3, 4.4.4, Ath.3.74c sq.; ἱερὰ ς. a suburb of Eleusis, where Demeter first produced the fig-tree, IG l.c., Paus. 1.37.2, Ath.3.74d, Philostr.VS2.20.3.2 σ. Αἰγυπτία,= κερωνία, Thphr. HP1.11.2.3 σ. περὶ τὴν Ἴδην, Amelanchier, Amelanchias vulgaris, ib.3.17.4.4 = χαμαισύκη, Dsc.4.169.5 banyan, Ficus bengalensis, Thphr HP 4.4.4.II = σῦκον 1, fig, Ar.Av.590.III a tar or resin in Aleppo pine, Thphr.HP3.9.3, Plin.HN16.44.IV a kind of spurge,= πέπλιον, Ps.-Dsc.4.168, Plin.HN27.119.VI a seaweed, Thphr.HP 4.6.2.
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