A.hound-leader, i.e. huntsman, A. Ag.695 (lyr.), etc.; as Adj., “τὴν κυναγὸν Ἄρτεμιν” S.El.563; κυναγὲ παρσένε huntress-maid, Ar.Lys.1270 (lyr.); “Ἔρως ὁ Κύπριδος κ.” Tim. Com.2:—fem. κυνηγίς , ίδος, huntress, name of a comedy by Philetaerus; also (sc. ναῦς), hunting-boat, Theb.Ostr.77 (i A.D.).— Trag. and Com. use κυνα_γός even in trim., cf. Phryn.399, and v. κυνηγία:—later κυνηγός Arist.HA579b28, Callix.2, PPetr.3p.115 (iii B.C.), SIG459.2 (Beroea, iii B.C.), D.S.2.25, Plu.Luc.8; = Lat. bestiarius, gladiator who fights with beasts, Just.Nov.115.3.10; κυνα_γός in this sense, Milet.1(9).314.
κυ^να_γός , Dor. for κυνηγός, （ἄγω)
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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