μυρμηκιά
ᾄδεις ὥσπερ εἰς Δῆλον πλέων → you sing as if you were sailing to Delos
English (LSJ)
or μυρμηκ-ία, ἡ,
A ant-hill, Dinol.12 (nisi leg. -ιᾶν), Arist. HA534b23, Thphr.Sign.22. II metaph., 1 throng of people, as in a crowded lecture-room, Hsch.; also μ. ἀγαθῶν Com.Adesp. 828. 2 ᾄδων (sic Fritzsche pro ἄγων) ἐκτραπέλους μυρμηκιάς trills and arpeggios, Pherecr.145.23; cf. μύρμηξ 1.2. III wart, differing from ἀκροχορδών, which has a neck, whereas μυρμηκία spreads under the skin, also the irritation caused thereby, which was compared to the creeping of ants, Hp.Liqu.4, Ph.2.225, Dsc.1.68, Heliod. ap.Orib.45.14.1, Poll.4.195. 2 similar disease in a horse, Hippiatr. 82.
German (Pape)
[Seite 220] ἡ, Ameisenhaufe; Arist. H. A. 4, 8; Luc. Icarom. 19, Plut. u. a. Sp. Sprichwörtlich ὁ πτύσας εἰς μυρμηκιὰν οἰδεῖ τὰ χείλη, Hesych. u. A.; μ. ἀγαθῶν ἐπὶ πλήθους εὐδαιμονίας, Zen. 1, 11. – Uebertr., eine Menge, eine Versammlung, z. B. von Schülern, dah. Hesych. es auch erkl. ἐπὶ διδασκαλείου καὶ συμφοιτήσεως.
