σῦκον

σῦκον, Boeot. τῦκον (Stratt. 47.5), τό, A. fruit of the συκῆ, fig, Od. 7.121, Hdt. 2.40, etc.; βασίλεια σ. were a large kind, Philem. 241; to eat figs in the heat of the day was thought to cause fever, Pherecr. 80, Ar. Fr. 463, Nicopho 12; ξηρὰ σ. Pl. Lg. 845b: prov., ὅσῳ διαφέρει σῦκα καρδάμων ‘as different as chalk from cheese’, Henioch. 4.2; σύκῳ . . σ. οὐδὲ ἓν οὕτως ὅμοιον γέγονεν Poet. ap. Cic. Att. 4.8b.2, cf. Herod. 6.60; τὰ σῦκα σῦκα . . ὀνομάζων Luc. Hist.Conscr. 41 (cf. σκάφη) ; σῦκα αἰτεῖν, prov. for τρυφᾶν, Ar. V. 302(lyr.); σῦκον χειμῶνος ζητεῖν, of a foolish enterprise, M.Ant. 11.33. 2. σ. Αἰγύπτιον, fruit of κερωνία, Thphr. HP 4.2.4, Od. 5. II. from its shape, a large wart on the eyelids, Ar. Ra. 1247, cf. Hp. Epid. 3.7; of tumours in other places, Poll. 4.200, Orib. Syn. 7.40. III. pudenda muliebria, Ar. Pax 1350.