Seirais: plektois himasi. kai genos Parthôn, hoi seirophoroi kaloumenoi. machontai de apo hippôn, seiras himantôn helissontes: pelasantes de tois polemiois ephiasi tous apo tôn himantôn brochous apostrepsantes te tous hippous opisô biaiôs elaunousi. tous de halontas tois brochois têi rhumêi tou hippou apothanontas ê zôntas helkousi.
[1] The headword and glossing phrase derive from the
Synagoge sigma39 (Cunningham), which is also the source for
Photius,
Lexicon s.v. (Porson 503.25, now sigma115 Theodoridis -- with, to be sure, a slightly different gloss:
leptoi=s i(ma=sin). See similarly
Hesychius sigma337 (Hansen). The headword is the dative plural of the feminine noun
seira/ (
sigma 274). This form does not occur in the quotation given here and must be extracted from another source: extant possibilities are numerous, but a likely one (championed by Theodoridis) is
Proverbs 5.22
LXX, which generated patristic comment.
[2] A conjectured fragment of Arrian's
Parthica (fr. 20 Roos). Greek and Roman authors report the military use of lassos among nomadic pastoralists of the Steppe, including the Sarmatians (e.g.
Herodotus 7.85; Pomponius Mela 1.114;
Pausanias 1.21.5) and Alans (
Josephus,
Jewish War 7.7.4 [250]). The application of the adjective
seirofo/ros, "lasso-carrying", to the Parthians is unique to this entry. See
sigma 287 for an alternative context.
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