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Headword:
*su/rigc
Adler number: sigma,1664
Translated headword: pipe, tube, gallery
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the part of the axle inserted into the nave of the wheel.
The nave of the wheel is also called so.[1]
Sophocles [writes]: "that man [i.e. Orestes] holding fast to the very final column, was always almost keeping close to the pipe".[2]
A
syrinx [is] also [sc. any] longish conduit.
"And these men he ordered to cut a deep canal under the crest of the hill".[3]
Also [sc. attested is the genitive]
su/riggos, [meaning] a [sc. musical] pipe,[4] or a spear-case.[5]
The Pisidian [writes]: "what Euclidean law taught the wise and industrious bee to practice geometry, but to make the galleries [sc. of the honeycomb] ... not in a straight line?"[6]
*su/rigc: to\ ei)s th\n o)ph\n tou= troxou= e)mballo/menon me/ros tou= a)/conos. kai\ h( o)ph\ tou= troxou= ou(/tw kalei=tai. *sofoklh=s: kei=nos d' u(p' au)th\n e)sxa/thn sth/lhn e)/xwn e)/gxrimpt' a)ei\ su/rigga. *su/rigc kai\ h( e)pimh/khs diw/ruc. kai\ tou/tous keleu/ei su/rigga baqei=an u(po\ to\n lo/fon trh/sasqai. kai\ *su/riggos, au)lou=, h)\ doratoqh/khs. *pisi/dhs: ti/s th\n me/littan th\n sofh\n th\n e)rga/tin gewmetrei=n e)/peisen *eu)klei/dou no/mos, poiei=n de\ ta\s su/riggas ou)k e)p' eu)qei/as;
Notes:
LSJ entry at web address 1.
[1] cf.
chi 359.
[2]
Sophocles,
Electra 720-1, with scholion; cf.
epsilon 4044,
sigma 1083.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable.
[4] cf. generally
alpha 4447.
[5] So in
Homer,
Iliad 19.387.
[6] George of
Pisidia,
Hexameron 1165-66, 1176, 1178; Esamerone 1136-1137, 1139, 1147 Tartaglia; on the marvels of Creation; cf. Basil of
Caesarea,
Hexameron VIII.4.49-55. Here Tartaglia detects (381, note 181) a polemic on the Pisidian's part against vainglorious natural science and mathematics.
James Howard-Johnston, "George of Pisidia", in Witnesses to a World Crisis: historians and histories of the Middle East in the seventh century. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010, 16-35
L. Tartaglia, ed., Carmi di Giorgio di Pisidia, (Torino 1998)
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: biography; Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; historiography; history; mathematics; military affairs; meter and music; poetry; religion; science and technology; trade and manufacture; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Yannick Muller on 9 August 2012@04:39:18.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 9 August 2012@05:37:28.
Catharine Roth (added note) on 24 September 2013@23:29:16.
David Whitehead on 5 January 2014@05:39:51.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 29 May 2022@19:29:29.
Ronald Allen (added translated headword, tweaked translation after discussion with Catharine Roth) on 9 December 2025@12:16:35.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.6, added to bibliography, added keyword) on 10 December 2025@12:39:36.
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