Προκύων

A. Procyon, Arat. 450, Hipparch. 2.2.13, etc.; but of Sirius, Gal. 17(1).17.

2. πρόκυνες,οἱ, winds which precede the rising of Sirius, Adam. Vent. 41.

II. spaniel-like flatterer, 'lap-dog', Phld. Rh. 1.242 S., prob. l. for πρόσκυνες in Hippias Erythr. I: but πικροὶ Καλλιμάχου πρόκυνες, a description of the Grammarians, snappers and snarlers, AP 11.322 (Antiphan.).