Lycaon

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First he greaved his legs with greaves of good make and fitted with ancle-clasps of silver; after this he donned the cuirass of his brother Lycaon, and fitted it to his own body; he hung his silver-studded sword of bronze about his shoulders, and then his mighty shield.

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  1. A name of the constellation Boötes (which see).
  2. A genus of canine quadrupeds of the family Canidæ, having but four toes on the fore feet, instead of five as in the rest of the Canidæ, resembling the hyenas in this respect; the South African hunting-dogs, hyena-dogs, or painted hyenas. L. pictus or venaticus is a flerce animal as large as a mastiff, with oval erect ears, bushy tail, and long limbs, and spotted with white, black, and yellow in an irregular manner. It hunts its prey in packs.

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  • First he greaved his legs with greaves of good make and fitted with ancle-clasps of silver; after this he donned the cuirass of his brother Lycaon, and fitted it to his own body; he hung his silver-studded sword of bronze about his shoulders, and then his mighty shield. —  The Iliad
  • Lycaon, aged warrior, urg'd me oft —  The Iliad
  • And he likened himself in voice to Lycaon, the son of Priam, and having likened himself to him, Apollo, the son of Jove, said: —  The Iliad of Homer (1873)
  • Parrhasian people who are of the lineage of Lycaon, and he built a great altar to Zeus Icmaeus, and duly offered sacrifices upon the mountains to that star Sirius, and to Zeus son of Cronos himself. —  The Argonautica
  • Eueneus son of Jason had given it to Patroclus in ransom of Priam's son Lycaon, and Achilles now offered it as a prize in honour of his comrade to him who should be the swiftest runner. —  The Iliad
 

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  1. New Latin, from Latin Lycaon, from Greek Λυκάων a mythical king of Arcadia, father of Callisto, who was transferred to the sky as the constellation of the Bear.
  2. New Latin, from Latin lycaon, from Greek λυκάων, an animal of the wolf kind, from λύκος = Latin lupus, a wolf: see Lupus.
 

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