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τερέτ-ισμα , ατος, τό,
A.a humming, twanging, “φορμίγγων” Diog. ap. D.L.6.104 (alluding to E.Fr.200), Luc.Nigr.15, AP7.612, cf. 11.352 (both Agath.); chirruping of cicadas, Hsch.
II. metaph., a mere sound or twittering, τερετίσματα τὰ εἴδη (the Platonic ideas) Arist.APo.83a33; τὰ συνήθη ταῦτα τ. the ordinary prattle, Procop.Gaz.Ep.33; “τὸ πόημα οὐχ ὡς τ. καὶ κροῦμα νοοῦμεν” Phld.Po.2p.228H.
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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