cyanus
cȳanus (od. -os), ī, m. (κύανος), I) die blaue Kornblume (Centaurea Cyanus, L.), Plin. 21, 48 u. 68. – II) ein Edelstein, eine Art des Lapis Lazuli, Plin. 37, 119.
cўănus, ī, m. (κύανος), bluet, barbeau [plante] : Plin. 21, 48.
Cyănus
(κύανος). A dark-blue substance supposed to be blue steel, mentioned by Homer and Hesiod as forming a part of works of metal—e. g. on Agamemnon's breastplate (Il. xi. 24) and on the shield of Heracles (Sc. Her. 143). The house of Alcinoüs had a cornice or frieze of κύανος ( Od. vii. 87). In Theophrastus it is lapis lazuli (Lapid. 31). See Merriam's note on Od. vii. 87, in his Phaeacians of Homer (N. Y. 1880).