σίφων

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Λήσειν διὰ τέλους μὴ δόκει πονηρὸς ὤν → Latere semper posse ne spera nocens → Gewiss nicht immer bleibst als Schuft du unentdeckt

Menander, Monostichoi, 329
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Transliteration A: síphōn Transliteration B: siphōn Transliteration C: sifon Beta Code: si/fwn

English (LSJ)

ωνος, ὁ,= ἡ καλάμη τοῦ ἀγρίου καλάμου, Gloss.: hence,

   A tube, pipe, Aen.Tact.18.10, Anon.Lond.26.51; καλάμινος σ. Dsc.Eup.2.35; esp.,    1 siphon, used for drawing wine out of the cask or jar, Hippon.56, PEleph.5.4 (iii B.C.); καμπύλος σ., τουτέστι σωλήν Hero Spir.1.1.    b drainage-tube for hydrocele, Gal.10.988.    c pump, PLond.3.1177.129 (ii A.D.).    2 fire-engine, Apollod.Poliorc. 174.5, Hsch.: generally, service-pipe for water in houses, Str.5.3.8.    3 water-spout, Olymp. in Mete.13.15, Sch.Arat.785.    4 αἵματος ἀνδρῶν σίφωνες blood-suckers, i.e. mosquitoes, AP5.150 (Mel.).    5 sens. obsc. for τὸ αἰδοῖον, E.Cyc.439 (s.v.l.).    6 = ῥυπαρὸς ἄνθρωπος, ἢ λίχνος, Hsch.    7 εἶδος θηρίου μυρμηκοειδές, Id.    8 ὄργανον σκόλοπι ὅμοιον, ἐν ᾧ τοὺς μαρσίππους ἐπισκοποῦσι, Id. (perh. = σιρομάστης 1). [ῑ in APl.c., Juv.6.310; but ῐ E. l.c. (s. v.l.).]