Σφίγξ: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, gen. [[Σφιγγός]], Boeot. [[φίξ]], Φῑκός:—[[Sphinx]],<br><span class="bld">A</span> Φῖκ' ὀλοήν Hes.''Th.''326 (where the Boeot. form [[Φίξ]] is given by Sch., cf. [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Cratylus|Cra.]]''414d), cf. Apollod.3.5.8; on the riddle of the S. guessed by Oedipus, Ath.10.456b, Arg.S.''OT'', A.''Frr.''235-7, E.''Ph.''1507 (anap.), cf. Sch.E.''Ph.''45, Str.17.1.28,32; cf. [[ἀνδρόσφιγξ]]; σφίγγες καὶ γρῦπες as ornaments of a precinct of [[Dionysus]], Hdt.4.79; Sphinxes on a shield, E.''El.''471 (lyr.).<br><span class="bld">2</span> metaph. of [[rapacious]] persons, Anaxil.22, ''Carm.Pop.''46.24,33; [[Μεγαρικαὶ σφίγγες]] = [[πόρνη|πόρναι]], Call. Com.23: also of [[those who speak riddles]], Σφίγγ' ἄρρεν', οὐ μάγειρον Strato Com.1.1; ἡ [[ἀφροσύνη]]… σφίγξ ἐστιν Cebes 3.<br><span class="bld">II</span> a kind of [[ape]], found in Ethiopia, Agatharch.73, Artem. ap. Str.16.4.16, Plin.''HN'' 8.72, Ael.''NA''16.15, and v. [[σφιγγίον]] ''ΙΙ''. (The form [[Φίξ]] connects the name with Mount [[Φίκιον]] in [[Boeotia]], cf. Sch.Hes. [[l.c.]], and is found in Plaut.''Aul.''701, [[picis divitiis qui aureos montis colunt ego solus supero]] = [[I alone surpass in wealth the griffins who live in the Golden Mountains]]; cf. Non.p.222 L.; [[Βῖκας]] = [[Σφίγγας]], [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]] ([[Σφίγξ]] may be a later form); [[Σφίξ]], gen. [[Σφικός]], Choerob. (Sophronius) ''in Theod.''p.400H.)