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Headword: *su/rigc
Adler number: sigma,1664
Translated headword: pipe, tube
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the part of the axle inserted into the nave of the wheel.
The nave of the wheel is also called so.[1] Sophocles [writes]: "that man [i.e. Orestes] holding fast to the very final column, was always almost keeping close to the pipe".[2]
A syrinx [is] also [sc. any] longish conduit.
"And these men he ordered to cut a deep canal under the crest of the hill".[3]
Also [sc. attested is the genitive] su/riggos, [meaning] a [sc. musical] pipe,[4] or a spear-case.[5]
The Pisidian [writes]: "which law of Euclid persuaded [someone] to measure out the wise and industrious bee, but to make the pipes [...] not in a straight line?"[6]
Greek Original:
*su/rigc: to\ ei)s th\n o)ph\n tou= troxou= e)mballo/menon me/ros tou= a)/conos. kai\ h( o)ph\ tou= troxou= ou(/tw kalei=tai. *sofoklh=s: kei=nos d' u(p' au)th\n e)sxa/thn sth/lhn e)/xwn e)/gxrimpt' a)ei\ su/rigga. *su/rigc kai\ h( e)pimh/khs diw/ruc. kai\ tou/tous keleu/ei su/rigga baqei=an u(po\ to\n lo/fon trh/sasqai. kai\ *su/riggos, au)lou=, h)\ doratoqh/khs. *pisi/dhs: ti/s th\n me/littan th\n sofh\n th\n e)rga/tin gewmetrei=n e)/peisen *eu)klei/dou no/mos, poiei=n de\ ta\s su/riggas ou)k e)p' eu)qei/as;
Notes:
LSJ entry at web address 1.
[1] cf. chi 359.
[2] Sophocles, Electra 720-1, with scholion; cf. epsilon 4044, sigma 1083.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable.
[4] cf. generally alpha 4447.
[5] So in Homer, Iliad 19.387.
[6] George of Pisidia, Hexameron 1165-66, 1176, 1178.
Reference:
James Howard-Johnston, "George of Pisidia", in Witnesses to a World Crisis: historians and histories of the Middle East in the seventh century. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010, 16-35
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
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Translated by: Yannick Muller on 9 August 2012@04:39:18.
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David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 9 August 2012@05:37:28.
Catharine Roth (added note) on 24 September 2013@23:29:16.
David Whitehead on 5 January 2014@05:39:51.
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