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χλούνης , ου, ὁ, Ep. epith. of the wild boar,
A.“χ. σῦς ἄγριος” Il.9.539; “χλοῦναι σύες” Hes.Sc.177; συῶν ἀγέλαι χλούνων ib.168; “χ. κάπρος” Call.Dian.150.
II. χλούνης alone, as Subst., = κάπρος, wild boar, Opp.H.1.12: hence ἤνυσε . . χλούνηνδε reached the wild boar's lair Nic.Fr.74.6. The word was variously interpreted:
1. = τομίας, castrated (because larger and more vicious), Arist.HA578b1, etc.: hence χ. τε καὶ γύνανδρος ἀνήρ, ὁ χ. τε καὶ γύννις, Ael.Fr.10.
2. = μονιός, solitary, “κατά τε χαλεπότητα καὶ ἀλκήν” Ar.Byz. ap. Eust. 772.59.
3. = ἀφριστής, foaming at the mouth, from Dor. Χλούδειν, = ἀφρίζειν, Sch.B Il.9.539.
4. = χλοεύνης, ὁ ἐν τῇ χλόῃ εὐναζόμενος, couching in the grass or greenwood, Apollon.Lex., AB1260, EM812.46.
III. robber, cf. χλοῦναι: λωποδύται οἱ τῇ χλόῃ εὐναζόμενοι, Hsch.; thus “ἄνδρα δ᾽ ἑσπέρης καθεύδοντα ἀπ᾽ ὦν ἔδυσε . . χλούνης” Hippon.61; “ἢ φῶρας ἀναιδέας ἥ τινα χλούνην” Alex.Aet.5.7; so perh. “μακροσκελὴς μὲν ἆρα μὴ χ. τις ᾖ;” A.Fr.62.
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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