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Ἓν οἶδα, ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα → I know only one thing, that I know nothing | all I know is that I know nothing.

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, Book 2 sec. 32.
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Transliteration A: sigérpēs Transliteration B: sigerpēs Transliteration C: sigerpis Beta Code: sige/rphs

English (LSJ)

ου, ὁ, (ἕρπω)

   A one that steals silently to a place, Call.Epigr. 45.6 (cj. Bentl., for σειγάρνης cod. Pal., cf. σιγέρπης· λαθροδάκτης, Hsch.).

German (Pape)

[Seite 878] ὁ, der still Heranschleichende, Callim. 6 (XII, 139).

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

σῑγέρπης: -ου, ὁ, (ἕρπω) ὁ ἐν σιγῇ πλησιάζων πρός τινα τόπον, Καλλ. Ἐπιγράμμ. 45. 6. - Καθ’ Ἡσύχ.: «σιγέρπης· λαθροδάκτης)».

Greek Monolingual

ὁ, Α
αυτός που προσέρχεται σε έναν τόπο κρυφά και σιωπηλά σαν κλέφτης.
[ΕΤΥΜΟΛ. < σῖγα + -έρπης (< ἕρπω)].

Russian (Dvoretsky)

σῑγέρπης: молча вползающий, т. е. вкрадчивый Anth.