σικύα
Έγ', ὦ ταλαίπωρ', αὐτὸς ὧν χρείᾳ πάρει. Τὰ πολλὰ γάρ τοι ῥήματ' ἢ τέρψαντά τι, ἢ δυσχεράναντ', ἢ κατοικτίσαντά πως, παρέσχε φωνὴν τοῖς ἀφωνήτοις τινά –> Wretched brother, tell him what you need. A multitude of words can be pleasurable, burdensome, or they can arouse pity somehow — they give a kind of voice to the voiceless.
English (LSJ)
[ῠ], Ion. σῐκ-ύη, ἡ,
A bottle-gourd, Lagenaria vulgaris, Arist.HA 616a22, Thphr.HP1.13.3, CP1.10.4.
B round gourd, Cucurbita maxima. 2 σικύα Ἰνδική,= κολοκύντη, Euthyd. ap. Ath.2.58f, cf. Menodor.ib.59a: but ς. distd. fr. κολοκύντη in Hellespontian dialect, Ath.2.59a. 3 = κολοκυνθίς, Hp.Mul.1.37; σ. πικρά Dsc.4.176. 4 gourd used as a calabash, Sammelb. 7202.20 (iii B.C.). II cupping-instrument, because it was shaped like the gourd, Crates Com.41, Hp.VM22, Aph.5.50, Pl.Ti.79e, Arist.Rh.1405b3, IG22.47.8,11.
