A.tawny (as expld. by most Gramm., though some also give blood-reeking), “δαφοινὸν δέρμα λέοντος” Il.10.23; “δράκων ἐπὶ νῶτα δαφοινός” 2.308; “θῶες δ.” 11.474; λαῖφος “δ᾽ ἐπὶ νῶτα δαφοινὸν λυγκὸς ἔχει” h.Pan.23; πῆμα δ., of the dragon Python, h.Ap.304; “δ. ἀετός” A.Pr.1022; “λεόντων ἁ δ. ἴλα” E.Alc.581 (lyr.); “δ. ἄγρα” tawny, Pi.N.3.81.
δα^φοινός , όν （ή, όν Opp.C.3.440; δαφοινή as etym. of δάφνη in Corn.ND32), epith. of savage animals,
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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