The wilde wolf, Licăon´,
Bite asondre thy backe-bone.
J. Skelton, Philip Sparow (time, Henry VIII.).
For proof, when with Lycā´on’s tyranny
Man durst not deal, then did Jove....
Him fitly to the greedy wolf transform.
Lord Brooke, Declination of Monarchy (1633).
Lychor´ida, nurse of Mari´na, who was born at sea. Marina was the daughter of Pericles, prince of Tyre, and his wife, Thais´a.—Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1608).
Lyc´idas, the name under which Milton celebrates the untimely death of Edward King, fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge. Edward King was drowned in the passage from Chester to Ireland, August 10, 1637. He was the son of Sir John King, secretary for Ireland.
⁂ Lycĭdas is the name of a shepherd in Virgil’s Eclogue, iii.