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 |Definition=ἡ, gen. <b class="b3">Σφιγγός</b>, Boeot. φίξ, <b class="b3">Φῑκός</b>:—<span class="title">Sphinx</span>, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> Φῖκ' ὀλοήν <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>326</span> (where the Boeot. form <b class="b3">Φίξ</b> is given by Sch., cf. <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Cra.</span>414d</span>), cf. <span class="bibl">Apollod.3.5.8</span>; on the riddle of the S. guessed by Oedipus, <span class="bibl">Ath.10.456b</span>, Arg.S.<span class="title">OT</span>, A.<span class="title">Frr.</span>235-7, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1507</span> (anap.), cf. Sch.<span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>45</span>, <span class="bibl">Str.17.1.28</span>,<span class="bibl">32</span>; cf. <b class="b3">ἀνδρόσφιγξ; σφίγγες καὶ γρῦπες</b> as ornaments of a precinct of Dionysus, <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.79</span>; Sphinxes on a shield, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">El.</span>471</span> (lyr.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> metaph. of <b class="b2">rapacious</b> persons, <span class="bibl">Anaxil.22</span>, <span class="title">Carm.Pop.</span>46.24,33; <b class="b3">Μεγαρικαὶ σ</b>., = [[πόρναι]], Call. Com.<span class="bibl">23</span>: also of those <b class="b2">who speak riddles</b>, Σφίγγ' ἄρρεν', οὐ μάγειρον <span class="bibl">Strato Com.1.1</span>; <b class="b3">ἡ ἀφροσύνη . . σ. ἐστιν</b> Cebes <span class="bibl">3</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> a kind of <b class="b2">ape</b>, found in Ethiopia, <span class="bibl">Agatharch.73</span>, Artem. ap. <span class="bibl">Str.16.4.16</span>, <span class="bibl">Plin.<span class="title">HN</span> 8.72</span>, <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>16.15</span>, and v. [[σφιγγίον]] <span class="bibl">11</span>. (The form <b class="b3">Φίξ</b> connects the name with Mount <b class="b3">Φίκιον</b> in Boeotia, cf. Sch.Hes. l.c., and is found in Plaut.<span class="title">Aul.</span>701, <b class="b2">Picis divitiis qui aureos montis colunt ego solus supero</b>; cf. Non.p.222 L.; <b class="b3">Βῖκας</b> = [[Σφίγγας]], Hsch. (<b class="b3">Σφίγξ</b> may be a later form); <b class="b3">Σφίξ</b>, gen. <b class="b3">Σφικός</b>, Choerob. (Sophronius) <span class="bibl"><span class="title">in Theod.</span>p.400H.</span>) </span>
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+|lstext='''Σφίγξ''': ἡ, γεν. Σφιγγός· (ἴδε ἐν τέλει) ― θῆλυ [[τέρας]], [[θυγάτηρ]] τῆς Χιμαίρας καὶ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτῆς Ὄρθρου, Ἡσ. Θεογ. 326 ([[ἔνθα]] ὁ Wolf ἀποκατέστησε τὸν Βοιωτ. τύπον Φίξ)· ἢ τῆς Ἐχίδνης καὶ τοῦ Τυφῶνος, Ἀπολλόδ. 3. 5, 8. Οἱ Τραγικοὶ παριστάνουσιν αὐτὴν ὡς προτείνουσαν [[αἴνιγμα]] εἰς τοὺς Θηβαίους καὶ φονεύουσαν πάντας τοὺς μὴ δυνάμενους νὰ λύσωσιν αὐτό· ἀλλ’ ὁ [[Οἰδίπους]] εὗρε τὴν λύσιν [[αὐτοῦ]], καὶ [[τότε]] αὕτη ἀπέκτεινεν ἑαυτήν, ἴδε τὰς ὑποθέσεις εἰς Σοφ. Ο. Τ., Αἰσχύλ. Ἀποσπ. 233-5. Ἐν ἔργοις τῆς τέχνης ἡ Σφὶγξ συνήθως παρίσταται ὡς ἔχουσα προτομὴν γυναικὸς ἐπὶ σώματος λεαίνης. Ὁ περὶ αὐτῆς [[μῦθος]] φαίνεται ὅτι ἦλθεν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου, [[ὅπου]] ἔτι καὶ νῦν σῴζεται [[ὑπερμεγέθης]] κεφαλὴ Σφιγγὸς [[μήπω]] καλυφθεῖσα ὑπὸ τῆς ἄμμου. Τὸ [[πάλαι]] ὑπῆρχον πολλαὶ ἄρρενές τε καὶ θήλεις, Ἡρόδ. 2. 175, πρβλ. Meineke εἰς Φιλήμ. σελ. 411· λέγεται δὲ ὅτι παρίστανον συμβολικῶς τὴν κατ’ [[ἔτος]] γινομένην ὑπερχείλισιν τοῦ Νείλου· ἐσχετίζοντο δὲ καὶ πρὸς τὴν μυστηριώδη λατρείαν τοῦ Βάκχου, Ἡρόδ. 4. 79. 2) μεταφορ. λέγεται ἐπὶ ἑταίρας, Ἀναξίλας ἐν «Νεοττίδι» 1. 5, 22· ἐπὶ ἅρπαγος, Ποιητ. παρ’ Ἀθην. 253Ε· ἐπὶ ἀνθρώπου αἰνιγματωδῶς ὁμιλοῦντος, Σφίγγ’ ἄρρεν’, οὐ μάγειρον εἰς τὴν οἰκίαν εἴληφ’· [[ἁπλῶς]] γὰρ οὐδὲ ἓν μὰ τοὺς θεοὺς ὅσ’ ἂν λέγῃ [[συνίημι]] Στράτων ἐν «Φοινικίδι» 1. 1· ἡ [[ἀφροσύνη]]... σφίγξ ἐστιν Κέβητος Πίναξ 3. ΙΙ. [[εἶδος]] πιθήκου ἀπαντῶντος ἐν τῇ Αἰθιοπικῇ, Ἀγαθάρχ. σελ. 50 Huds., Ἀρτεμίδ. παρὰ Στράβ. 775, Διόδ. Σικ. 3. 35, πρβλ. Αἰλ. π. Ζ. 16. 15, καὶ ἴδε [[σφιγγία]] ΙΙ. (Πιθαν. ἐκ τοῦ [[σφίγγω]], ὁ πνίγων, ὁ στραγγαλιστής. Διὰ τοῦ Αἰολικ. τύπου Φὶξ σχετίζεται τὸ [[ὄνομα]] πρὸς τὸ [[ὄρος]] Φίκιον ἐν Βοιωτίᾳ).
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