κῆπος,
Doric dialectκᾶπος (also [
Refs], ὁ,
garden, orchard, or
plantation, [
Refs 8th c.BC+]; of any rich, highly cultivated region, as Ἀφροδίτας κᾶπος, i.e. Cyrene, [
Refs 5th c.BC+], also of heaven, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; Φοίβου παλαιὸς κ, of the eastern sky,[
Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ Μίδεω κῆποι, in Macedonia, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the country round Panormus, [
Refs]; the
enclosure for the Olympic games, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν κ. the scholars of Epicurus, because he taught in a
garden, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]; οἱ Ἀδώνιδος κ, see at {Ἀδωνι; οἱ Ταντάλου κ}, proverbial of illusory pleasures, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]
II)
a fashion of cropping the hair, [
Refs 2nd c.AD+]
III)
pudenda muliebria, [
Refs 3rd c.AD+]
IV) variant for {κῆβος} (which see).