σηστός

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English (LSJ)

ἡ, (σήθω) nickname of the courtesan Phryne,

   A the sifter, because she drained her lovers of money, Herodic. ap. Ath.13.591c.    II σηστὸν καρύων Ποντικῶν, perh. name of a measure, PCair.Zen.13.22, cf. 12.9 (iii B.C.).

German (Pape)

[Seite 876] gesiebt, gesichtet; σηστή war ein Spottbeiname der Phryne, weil sie ihre Liebhaber rein ausbeutelte, Ath. XIII, 591 c.