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Headword:
*surigmo/s
Adler number: sigma,1663
Translated headword: hiss, hissing
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning an] unvoiced sound.
"As regards the hissing and the hooting at the public festivals [...], who could easily explain it?"[1]
And elsewhere: "hissing, the Romans were voting down [sc. the Persian envoy] and were creating turmoil with their shouts."[2]
Greek Original:*surigmo/s: fwnh\ a)/shmos. tou\s de\ surigmou\s tou\s e)n tai=s koinai=s panhgu/resi kai\ tou\s xleuasmou\s ti/s e)chgh/saito r(a|di/ws; kai\ au)=qis: oi( de\ *(rwmai=oi katexeiroto/noun suri/ttontes kai\ taraxh\n tai=s boai=s e)nepoi/oun.
Notes:
The entry illustrates both an abstract noun and the present participle of a related verb.
[1]
Polybius 30.29.6 (here abridged), on events of 166/5 BCE. The hostility is directed against pro-Roman politicians.
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 1.15.11; on the Persian envoy Mebod (cf. generally
alpha 1998 note), speaking to an assembly of military personnel gathered by the Roman general Philippicus (spring of 586); cf. de Boor (69) and Whitby (42). On Philippicus see
phi 349 generally. See related entries at
epsilon 2618 note.
C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs; politics; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 May 2014@07:07:53.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (coding, status) on 26 May 2014@10:46:20.
David Whitehead (expanded notes; another keyword) on 27 May 2014@03:30:40.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2; added bibliography, cross-references, and keywords) on 1 July 2025@12:35:28.
Ronald Allen (added cross-references n.2) on 2 July 2025@12:14:26.
Ronald Allen (updated cross-reference n.2) on 3 July 2025@11:31:06.
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