[Meaning] elongated cavities beneath the earth, some as if being veins of the earth, the water running within which seeks an outlet. Hence also one speaks of a 'caverned' place, [meaning] one that has been been bored through [sc. by underground streams].[1]
*sh/ragges: ai( u(po\ gh=n e)pimh/keis e)krh/ceis, oi(onei\ fle/bes tine\s ou)=sai th=s gh=s, a(\s u(potre/xon to\ u(/dwr zhtei= die/codon. e)nteu=qen kai\ shraggw/dhs to/pos ei)/rhtai, o( diatetrhme/nos.
The headword is nominative plural of the feminine noun
sh=ragc (
sigma 335 and see generally LSJ s.v.), first attested in
Sophocles and
Plato. This nominative plural, indeed, might be extracted from
Plato,
Phaedo 110A, a passage quoted in
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon and in
Stobaeus'
Florilegium. Even if so, however, the glossing material -- paralleled in other lexica: see next note -- seems to have been generated by a much later passage, with accusative plural, in Gregory of Nazianzus,
Orations 4.30 (PG 36.1213c); see the
scholia there.
[1] Same or very similar glossing -- the opening adjective is sometimes
e)pimh/keis (as here), sometimes
u(pomh/keis -- in the
Synagoge (sigma48), the
Lexicon haimodein (
sigma 24), and
Photius'
Lexicon (sigma182 Theodoridis); cf. also e.g.
Etymologicum Gudianum 499.44-47, and
Etymologicum Magnum 711.34-38 (Kallierges).
[In her critical apparatus Adler reports that ms A reads
oi)=on:
some alone being; also that ms G transmits the masculine present active participle
u(potre/xwn,
running within, whereas the neuter is required, since the governing substantive is
to\ u(/dwr,
the water; and that ms F omits the definite article
to\ before
u(/dwr.]
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