*sikui=a: ta\ tetra/ggoura. h)\ i)atriko\n e)rgalei=on. kai\ *sikuh/laton, o( kh=pos.
The headword, evidently extracted from somewhere, but first attested in this form at
Themistius,
Paraphrase of Posterior Analytics, 5.1.60, is a feminine noun in the nominative singular. It is registered in the Supplement to the LSJ, where it is given as a later alternative spelling of
siku/a (
bottle-gourd); see generally LSJ s.v., which identifies this plant as
Lagenaria vulgaris (Tutin, p. 298).
[Adler, also citing the
Lexicon Ambrosianum, reports in her critical apparatus that the
editio princeps of the Suda transmits the lemma as
*siku/a. She also notes that this entry and
sigma 400 are in reverse order.]
[1] The gloss is the nominative plural of the neuter noun
tetra/ggouron,
large cucumber; see generally LSJ s.v., which cites this Suda entry as its source, and ps.-Herodian,
Partitiones 124.1. [Adler reports that ms M reads
tetra/gkoura; also that ms M inserts above the entry
to\ par' h(mi=n lego/menon a)griaggou/ria (
what amongst us are called a)griaggou/ria).]
[2] Gourds, horns, and ceramic and metal vessels were used as cupping instruments in ancient medicine (Milne, pp. 101-105); cf.
kappa 2574.
[3] This secondary lemma is a neuter noun in the nominative/vocative/ accusative singular; see generally LSJ s.v. [In her critical apparatus Adler reports that mss AF omitted this addendum, though ms A (Parisinus 2626) added it in the margin.]
T.G. Tutin, et al., eds., Flora Europaea, vol. 2 (Rosaceae to Umbrelliferae), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968
J.S. Milne, Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times, Chicago, IL: Ares Publishers, 1976
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