[Meaning a] scoffer.[1]
Or one who is without an appetite, and feeble.[2]
Plutarch [writes]: "of living creatures, those stronger in their gullets can digest when eating scorpions and serpents [...] but fastidious and sickly men are brought to nausea by bread and water."[3]
*sikxo/s: skw/pths. h)\ o( a)no/rektos, kai\ a)sqenh/s. *plou/tarxos: ta\ r(wmalew/tera tw=n zw/|wn tou\s stoma/xous skorpi/ous kai\ o)/feis e)sqi/onta katape/ttei: oi( de\ sikxoi\ kai\ nosw/deis a)/rton kai\ u(/dwr prosfero/menoi nautiw=sin.
The headword is a masculine noun in the nominative singular; cf. generally
sigma 405,
epsiloniota 25 (gloss), LSJ s.v., and another (rare) sense of this word at
sigma 407.
The earliest attestation of the headword is at
Aristotle,
Eudemian Ethics 1234a6, contrasting the extreme states of being either fastidious or omnivorous against a praiseworthy appetite, which is a mean between the two (web address 1).
[1] Identical glossing in the
Synagoge (sigma77),
Lexica Segueriana 364.15 (Bachmann), and
Photius,
Lexicon sigma207 Theodoridis; cf. also
Hesychius sigma629 on the corresponding participle.
[2] This supplemental gloss is not found in other lexica.
[3] An abbreviation and approximation of
Plutarch,
Moralia 87A-B (from the
De capienda ex inimicis utilitate,
How to profit by one's enemies): web address 2. Amongst the differences:
Plutarch's received text contains the superlative
r(wmalew/tata,
strongest (emended by Hercher to
r(wmale/a,
strong), not the Suda's comparative; also,
Plutarch referred to bread 'and wine', not water.
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