τίφη
οἷς τὰ ὁρώμενα τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐνδίδωσι, καὶ οἷον ὑπήνεμα διὰ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν τὰ πάθη ταῖς ψυχαῖς εἰστοξεύονται → who taketh his beginning and occasion from something which is seen, and then his passion, as though wind borne, shoots through the eyes and into the heart
English (LSJ)
ἡ,
A one-grained wheat, einkorn, Triticum monococcum, Arist. HA603b26 (pl.), Thphr.HP1.6.5, 8.1.1 (pl.), al., Diocl.Fr.113 (pl.), Gal.6.791, Plin.HN18.93; wrongly glossed by ὄλυρα, Hsch. II a kind of beetle, Ar.Ach.920,925 (cf. Sch.Rav.ad loc., Suid. s.v. θρυαλλίς). 2 = σίλφη 1, Poll.7.19, Phryn.268 (Lobeck for τίλφη, confirmed by cod. Laur.), Ael.NA8.13. (The quantity of ι is doubtful; pl. τίφαι is written in Thphr.HP8.1.1, Diocl. l.c., dat. τιφαῖς Arist. l.c. (v.l. στιφαῖς).)
