Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Cynocephalus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

CYNOCEPH'ALUS (κυνοκέφαλος). A species of ape, with a head like a dog's (Simia Inuus. L.); kept as a sacred animal in the temples of Isis, and frequently represented in the Egyptian sculptures and paintings. Cic. Att. vi. 1. Plin. H. N. viii. 80.

2. Dog-headed; an epithet given to the Egyptian deity Anubis, who is represented with a dog's head. Tertull. Apol. 6. Minucius Felix in Octav. 22.