σείριος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, name of the<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[dog-star]], [[Sirius]], whose visible heliacal rising marked the season of greatest [[heat]] (cf. Gem.17.39), Hes.''Op.'' 587,609, ''Sc.''153,397, Alc.39, E.''Hec.''1104 (lyr.); [[Σείριος κύων]] [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Agamemnon|Ag.]]'' 967, [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Fragments|Fr.]]''803; [[Σείριος ἀστήρ]] Hes.''Op.''417:—of the [[sun]], acc. to [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]], in Archil.61, cf. [[ἀκτὶς Σειρία]] Lyc.397 and Sch. ad loc.; σ. [[ἠέλιος]] Orph.''A.''120; of [[stars]], Ibyc.3, Alcm.23.62, cf. E.''Fr.''779.8 cod. Longin., of a [[bright]] [[planet]], Id.''IA''7 (acc. to Theo Sm. p.146 H., dub., anap.).<br><span class="bld">2</span> Adj. [[destructive]], σείριαι νᾶες Tim.''Pers.'' 192.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[σείριον πάθος]] = [[σειρίασις]], Sor.1.124.<br><span class="bld">4</span> [[σείριον]] (''[[sc.]]'' [[ἱμάτιον]]), a [[light summer garment]], Harp. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[σείρινα]], Phot. [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[σειρῆνα]]. (Suid. derives it from a form σείρ gen. [[σειρός]], = [[ἥλιος]], which is suspect.)