A.shepherd's pipe, Panspipe, “αὐλῶν συρίγγων τ᾽ ἐνοπή” Il.10.13; “νομῆες τερπόμενοι σύριγξι” 18.526; “συρίγγων ἐνοπή” h.Merc.512; “ὑπὸ λιγυρῶν συρίγγων ἵεσαν αὐδήν” Hes.Sc.278; “οὐ μολπὰν σύριγγος ἔχων” S.Ph.213 (lyr.); καλαμίνη ς. Ar.Fr.719; “κατ᾽ ἀγροὺς τοῖς νομεῦσι σῦριγξ ἄν τις εἴη” Pl.R.399d.
2. cat-call, whistle, hiss, as in theatres, Id.Lg.700c; cf. “συρίζω” 11.2, συριγμός:—the last part of the νόμος Πυθικός was called σύριγγες, prob. because it imitated the dying hisses of the serpent Pytho, Str.9.3.10.
II. anything like a pipe:
1. spear-case, = δορατοθήκη, Il.19.387.
2. hole in the nave of a wheel, A.Th.205 (lyr.), Supp.181, S.El.721, E.Hipp. 1234, Theoc.24.120, etc.; cf. Suid.
3. hollow part of a hinge, Parm. 1.19.
4. Medic., in pl., pores or bronchial passages of the lungs, Arist.Resp.478a13,480b7, HA496b3,513b5; δι᾽ οὗ μεριεῖται τὸ πνεῦμα κατὰ τὰς ἀρτηρίας εἰς τὰς ς. Id.PA664a28; of other ducts or channels in the body, “λίφαιμοι σαρκῶν σύριγγες” Emp.100.2, cf. Max.169; “σύριγγες ἄνω φυσῶσι μελαν μένος” S.Aj.1412 (anap.); of the trachea, Hp. Cord.2; the liver-duct, “ἡ ς. τοῦ ἥπατος” Id.Mul.1.78 (cf. “θρίξ” 111); ς. αἱματόεσσα, of a vein, A.R.4.1647; ἱερὰ ς. cavity of the spine, Poll. 2.180; passage through the elephant's trunk, Aret.SD2.13.
7. groove or barrel of a catapult, Ph.Bel.61.46, 62.40, Hero Bel.100.5, Vitr.10.10.3.
8. subterranean passage, gallery, mine, Plb.9.41.9, 21.28.6, Str.3.2.9, al.; of the burial vaults of the Egyptian kings at Thebes, Ael.NA6.43, Paus.1.42.3, Baillet Inscr.des tombeaux des rois à Thèbes Nos.13,245, al.
9. covered gallery or cloister, Callix.1, Plb.15.31.3; “σύριγγας τῶν ὑσπλήγων δύο” BCH35.286 (Delos).
10. channel for counterweight in automaton, Hero Aut.2.8.
11. perh. loop, J.AJ3.7.5.
