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φωνὰ τύ τίς ἐσσι καὶ οὐδὲν ἄλλο → it's all voice you are, and nothing else | it's all voice ye are, and nought else

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   A anything dragged or swept together, sweepings, refuse, litter, χόρτος καὶ σ. Hes.Op.606, cf. Call.Ap.109, Plu.2.97f; συρφετὸν ἡγεῖσθαί τι ib.811e; σ. ῥημάτων Jul.Or.7.218c; cf. σύρμα 1.2.    2 metaph., mixed crowd, mob, rabble, σ. δούλων Pl.Grg.489c; τῷ πολλῷ σ. to the many-headed mob, Id.Tht.152c; ἐλθεῖν εἰς τοιοῦτον σ. Euphro 10.6, cf. Jul.Or.5.173a.    b of a single person, one of the mob, οὐ κομψός, ἀλλὰ σ. Pl.Hp.Ma.288d:—hence as Adj., of or like the mob, vulgar, Simp. in Epict. p.86 D., Sch.Hermog. in Rh.4.40 W.