κῆπος
kepos
nisnas monkey, Cercopithecus pyrrhonotus
Appears 6 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
κῆπος, Dor. κᾶπος (also Inscr.Cypr. 135.20 H.), ὁ,
‹ All lexicon entries garden, orchard, or plantation, Od. 7.129, 24.247, 338; πολυδένδρεος 4.737; of any rich, highly cultivated region, as Ἀφροδίτας κᾶπος, i.e. Cyrene, P. 5.24; Διὸς κ., i.e. Libya, ib. 9.53 (but Διὸς κῆποι, also of heaven, Fr. 320 (lyr.); Φοίβου παλαιὸς κ., of the eastern sky, ib. 956, cf. Smp. 203b; cf. Ὠκεανοῦ κ. Nu. 271); κ. Εὐβοίας Fr. 24; οἱ Μίδεω κῆποι, in Macedonia, 8.138; of the country round Panormus, 2 [not found]; the enclosure for the Olympic games, O. 3.24; οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν κ. the scholars of Epicurus, because he taught in a garden, M. 9.64, cf. 10.10; οἱ Ἀδώνιδος κ., v. Ἀδωνις; οἱ Ταντάλου κ., prov. of illusory pleasures, VS 1.20.1: metaph., Χαρίτων νέμομαι κᾶπον, i.e. poetic art, O. 9.27; ἐκ Μουσῶν κ. τινῶν . . δρεπόμενοι τὰ μέλη Ion 534a; τοὺς ἐν τοῖς γράμμασι κ. σπείρειν Phdr. 276d.
II. a fashion of cropping the hair, 2.29, Fr. 230.
III. pudenda muliebria, 2.116.
IV. v.l. for κῆβος (q.v.).