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σεῖστρος

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νέῳ δὲ σιγᾶν μᾶλλον ἢ λαλεῖν πρέπει → it's fitting for a young man to keep silence rather than to speak (Menander)

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Transliteration A: seîstros Transliteration B: seistros Transliteration C: seistros Beta Code: sei=stros

English (LSJ)

ὁ,

   A yellow-rattle, Rhinanthus major, growing in the Scamander, Arist.Mir.846a34, cf. Ps.-Plu.Fluv.13.2 (οίστρ- codd.).

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

σεῖστρος: -ου, ὁ, φυτόν τι ὅμοιον ὀρόβω, καί φυόμενον παρὰ τὸν Σκάμανδον Ἀριστ. π. Θαυμασ. 160 (Βεκκῆρ. σίστρ.), πρβλ. Πλούτ. 2 1157Ε.

French (Bailly abrégé)

ου (ὁ) :
sorte de plante.
Étymologie: DELG σείω.