σιωπή
ἡ ὑπόστασίς μου ὡσεὶ οὐθὲν ἐνώπιόν σου → my life is as nothing in respect to you, my life is nothing in thy reckoning
English (LSJ)
rarely σωπή (q.v.), ἡ,
A silence, S.OT1075, Fr.928, E.Hipp.911; σ. ὑπεσημάνθη Th.6.32; σ. ποιεῖν, ποιεῖσθαι, X.HG6.3.10, Isoc.12.234; ἦν σ. there was a hush or calm, S.OC1623, Aeschin.2.35: pl., τῶν ἀπειράτων ἄγνωστοι σ. inglorious silence is their lot who make no venture, Pi.I.4(3).30 (48). 2 the habit of silence, ἐκ τῆς σ. τὴν τῆς σωφροσύνης δόξαν θηρᾶσθαι D.61.21, cf. Plu.2.39b, etc. II dat. σιωπῇ as Adv., in silence, the only case used by Hom., ἀκὴν ἐγένοντο σιωπῇ Il.3.95, etc.; σ. ἧσο 4.412; ἐπ' ὀφρύσι νεῦσε σ. made a sign without speaking, 9.620; σ. πίνειν Od.1.339; σ. πάσχειν ἄλγεα 13.309, cf. Pi.P.4.57; στῆναι, πορεύεσθαι, καθῆσθαι σ., E.HF930, X.Cyr.5.3.43, D.48.31; secretly, Il.14.310; σιωπῇ τοῦτ' ἀκύρωτον μένει E.Ion801, cf. Ar.Eq. 1212.
