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|btext=ιδος (ἡ) :<br />Syrte, <i>n. de deux bancs de sable sur la côte de Libye</i>, la Grande Syrte (<i>auj.</i> golfe de Sidra), la Petite Syrte (<i>auj.</i> golfe de Gabès).<br />'''Étymologie:''' [[σύρω]]. | |btext=ιδος (ἡ) :<br />Syrte, <i>n. de deux bancs de sable sur la côte de Libye</i>, la Grande Syrte (<i>auj.</i> golfe de Sidra), la Petite Syrte (<i>auj.</i> golfe de Gabès).<br />'''Étymologie:''' [[σύρω]]. | ||
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|txtha=(Lachmann [[Σύρτις]]; cf. Tdf. Proleg., p. 103; Chandler § 650), Συρτισεως, accusative Σύρτιν, ἡ ([[σύρω]], [[which]] [[see]] (others from Arabic sert, i. e. '[[desert]]'; others [[besides]], [[see]] Pape, Eigennamen, [[under]] the [[word]])), Syrtis, the [[name]] of [[two]] places in the African or Libyan Sea [[between]] [[Carthage]] and Cyrenaica, [[full]] of [[shallows]] and sandbanks, and [[therefore]] [[destructive]] to ships; the [[western]] Syrtis, [[between]] the islands Cercina and Meninx (or the promontories of Zeitha and Brachodes), [[was]] called Syrtis [[minor]], the [[eastern]] (extending from the [[promontory]] of Cephalae on the Winer s Grammar, to [[that]] of Boreum on the E.) [[was]] called Syrtis major (sinus Psyllicus); [[this]] [[latter]] [[must]] be the [[one]] referred to in B. D. [[under]] the [[word]] <TOPIC:Quicksands>.) | |||
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Revision as of 18:02, 28 August 2017
English (LSJ)
gen. εως, Ion. ιος, also ιδος D.P.477, ἡ: (σύρω):—
A the Syrtis, name of two large shallow gulfs on the coast of Libya, Hdt.2.32, 150, etc. II metaph., destruction, ἄλλα δ' ἄλλαν θραῦεν σ. Tim. Pers.99, cf. Cic.Orat.3.41.163, Hsch.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
Σύρτις: γεν. εως, Ἰων. ιος, καὶ ιδος, Διον. Π. 477, ἡ· (σύρω)· ― ὄνομα δύο μεγάλων τεναγωδῶν τόπων τῆς Λιβυκῆς θαλάσσης εἰσχωρούντων εἰς πολὺ μέρος τῆς χώρας δηλ. τῆς Λιβύης (ἡ μείζων Σύρτις καὶ ἐλάσσων), Ἡρόδ. 2. 32, 150, κλπ. ΙΙ. μεταφορ., «φθορά, καὶ λύμη» Ἡσύχ., ἔνθα ὀξυτόνως. συρτίς.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ιδος (ἡ) :
Syrte, n. de deux bancs de sable sur la côte de Libye, la Grande Syrte (auj. golfe de Sidra), la Petite Syrte (auj. golfe de Gabès).
Étymologie: σύρω.
English (Thayer)
(Lachmann Σύρτις; cf. Tdf. Proleg., p. 103; Chandler § 650), Συρτισεως, accusative Σύρτιν, ἡ (σύρω, which see (others from Arabic sert, i. e. 'desert'; others besides, see Pape, Eigennamen, under the word)), Syrtis, the name of two places in the African or Libyan Sea between Carthage and Cyrenaica, full of shallows and sandbanks, and therefore destructive to ships; the western Syrtis, between the islands Cercina and Meninx (or the promontories of Zeitha and Brachodes), was called Syrtis minor, the eastern (extending from the promontory of Cephalae on the Winer s Grammar, to that of Boreum on the E.) was called Syrtis major (sinus Psyllicus); this latter must be the one referred to in B. D. under the word <TOPIC:Quicksands>.)
