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Headword: *seirh/neion me/los
Adler number: sigma,282
Translated headword: Siren song, Sirens' song
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[no gloss]
Greek Original:
*seirh/neion me/los.
Note:
This unglossed phrase for the song of the Sirens (sigma 280, sigma 281, alpha 4402) is proverbial for a bewitching song. It is found in (e.g.) Michael Psellus, Orationes forenses 3.275 (in the dative plural, cf. Theologica 32.59); ps.-Codinus, Patria Constantinopoleos 3.38; and Eustathius, Commentary on the Odyssey 12.198. It is also mentioned in Herodian's Partitions 16.6. Its rare adjective is sometimes written *Seirh/nios.
Keywords: meter and music; mythology; proverbs
Translated by: Robert Dyer on 6 April 2002@16:16:09.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 12 September 2002@08:34:03.
David Whitehead (expanded note; tweaking) on 23 December 2013@07:23:24.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 2 March 2015@01:33:50.

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