A.spying out the destination and value of ships' cargoes and then piratically seizing them, Ephor.27 J., etc.: hence Κωρυκαῖος, prov. of spies and eavesdroppers, Str.14.1.32, Cic.Att.10.18.1, prob. in Call.Iamb.1.143; K. ἠκροάσατο, 'a little bird told me', Men.150; μὴ κατακούσειεν δέ μου ὁ K., 'low be it spoken', Diox.2:—also Κωρύκιον σκάφος piratical craft, Alciphr.1.8.
Κώρυ^κος , ὁ, Corycus, a promontory of Cilicia, h.Ap.39, etc.:— Adj. Κωρυκαῖος , α, ον: the inhabitants were infamous for
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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