Ὑάκινθος

A. Hyacinthus, a Laconian youth, beloved by Apollo, who killed him by an unlucky cast of the discus, E. Hel. 1469 (lyr.), Apollod. 3.10.3, Paus. 3.1.3: cf. Ὑακίνθια.

B. as Appellat.,

I. ὑάκινθος, ὁ, Il. 14.348, Paus. 1.35.4; but ἡ in Sapph. 94, Thphr. HP 6.8.2, Theoc., etc. (v. infr.):—wild hyacinth, bluebell, Scilla bifolia, Il. l. c., h.Cer. 7, Thphr. HP 6.8.1, Dsc. 4.62.

2. blue larkspur, Delphinium Ajacis, ὑ. σπαρτή Thphr. HP 6.8.2; said to have sprung up from the blood of Hyacinthus or (acc. to others) of Telamonian Ajax: and the ancients thought they could decipher on the petals the initial letters AI, or the interj. AIAI, cf. Mosch. 3.6; hence the epithets γραπτά Theoc. 10.28; αἰαστής Nic. Fr. 74.31; πολύθρηνος Id. Th. 902; πολύκλαυτος IG 14.607; cf. Ps.-Dsc. 3.73.

3. ὑ. πορφυρέη, prob. Lilium Martagon, Euph. 40, AP 5.146 (Mel.).

II. ὑάκινθος, ἡ Hld., ὁ Ph. and J.:—a precious stone, of blue colour (J. AJ 3.7.7), perh. aquamarine, Apoc. 21.20, Peripl.M.Rubr. 56, Luc. Syr.D. 32, Hld. 2.30, Cod.Just. 11.12.1, etc.; cf. Plin. HN 37.125.

III. name of a blue colour, J. AJ 3.6.1, PHolm. 17.3; blue stuff, LXX Ex. 28.8, Ph. 2.148, J. BJ 5.5.4; χιτώνια τὴν χροιὰν ὑακίνθου Arr. Tact. 34.6.