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σομφ-ός , ή, όν,
A.spongy, porous, “ς. οἷον σπογγιά” Hp.Loc.Hom.2; of pumice-stone, Alex.124.10; ἡ γλῶττα σὰρξ μανὴ καὶ ς. Arist.HA492b33; freq. of the lungs, ib.496b3, Resp.478a13, al., cf. Clidem. ap. Thphr.Sens.38; σομφὴ σάρξ, of fish, Archestr.Fr.14; of ground, “χώρα ς. καὶ ὕπαντρος” Arist.Mete. 366a25, cf. 352b10.
II. metaph. of sound, unresonant, σομφὸν φθέγγεσθαι, of persons with polypus in the nose, Hp.Morb.2.33; σομφὸν ἐμπνεύσας, of a flute-player, blowing thickly, huskily, D.H. Comp.11, cf. Alex.Aphr. in Top.329.28; half-way between λευκός and μέλας in sounds, as φαιός is in colours, Arist.Top.106b7.
III. σομφός, ὁ,= κολοκυνθίς, Plin.HN20.13.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 20.13
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 11
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