= Synagoge sigma97, Photius sigma257 Theodoridis; cf. Apollonius Sophistes (Homeric Lexicon 142.3), Hesychius sigma781. For a related word see sigma 507. The headword is the aorist optative active, third person singular, of the verb siflo/w. The entry is taken to be related to commentary on Homer, Iliad 14.142 (where the headword occurs, albeit without nu ephelkustikon), but contrast several scholia thereto and also Etymologicum Gudianum 501.43, where the headword is glossed as 'make blind' or 'make (someone) an object of blame/ridicule'. A late literary attestation arguably closer to the Synagoge/Photius/Suda glossing is Joannes Geometres 80.11 (10th c. CE).