Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἴυγξ

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A.wryneck, Iynx torquilla, Arist.HA504a12, PA695a23, Ael.NA6.19; used as a charm to recover unfaithful lovers, being bound to a revolving wheel, “ἴ. τετράκναμος” Pi.P.4.214, cf. AP5.204; “ἕλκειν ἴυγγα ἐπί τινι” X.Mem.3.11.18; “ἴ. ἕλκε τὺ τῆνον ἐμὸν ποτὶ δῶμα” Theoc.2.17: metaph., ἕλκομαι ἴυγγι ἦτορ as by the magic wheel, Pi.N.4.35; “ὥσπερ ἀπὸ ἴυγγος τῷ κάλλει ἑλκόμενος” Luc.Dom.13.

2. metaph., spell, charm, “τῇ σῇ ληφθέντες ἴυγγι” Ar.Lys.1110, cf. S.Fr.474 (prob. cj.), Lyc.310, D.L. 6.76, Plu.2.1093d (prob. cj. in 568a), Philostr.VA8.7 (pl.), Hld.8.5; passionate yearning for, “ἀγαθῶν ἑτάρων” A.Pers.989.

3. in pl., name of certain 'Chaldaic' divinities, Procl.in R.2.213K., in Cra.p.33 P., Dam.Pr.111, al.: in sg., ἡ πρώτη ἴ. ib.217, cf. 213.

4. = σῦριγξ μονοκάλαμος, EM480.1. [ι_ Ep. and Pi.; ι^ Att.]

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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