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Σειρήν , ῆνος, ἡ, Siren; in pl., Σειρῆνες, αἱ, Sirens, Od.12.39, al., cf. Sch.ad loc.; Ep. dual gen. Σειρήνοιιν ib.52, 167;
A.“πτεροφόροι νεανίδες . . Σειρῆνες” E.Hel.169 (lyr.), cf. Fr.911 (lyr.); “Σειρὴν . . τὰ σκέλη δὲ κοψίχου” Anaxil.22.20; cf. “ἁρπυιόγουνος; σειρῆνα κόμπον . . ὃς Ζεφύρου σιγάζει πνοάς” Pi.Parth.2.13, cf. Hes.Fr.69; “ἐπὶ τῶν κύκλων [τοῦ ἀτράκτου] . . ἐφ᾽ ἑκάστου βεβηκέναι Σειρῆνα . . φωνὴν μίαν ἱεῖσαν” Pl.R.617b (hence σειρῆνες: τὰ ἄστρα, Lex.Rhet.ap.Eust.1709.54, cf. Theo Sm. p.146H.); as a grave-ornament, “στᾶλαι καὶ Σειρῆνες ἐμαί” AP7.710 (Erinna), cf. 491 (Mnasalc.).
II. metaph., Siren, deceitful woman, E.Andr.936: also, the Siren charm of eloquence, persuasion, and the like , Alcm.7, Aeschin.3.228, Alex.Aet.7 (pl.); ποικίλη ς., of philosophy, Phld.Rh.2.145 S.; “λόγων ς. καὶ χάρις” Plu.Mar.44, cf. D.H. Comp.26, Jul.Or.2.52d; “ὤλετο παρθενίη ς. ἐμή” Supp.Epigr.1.567.7 (Fayum), cf. IG14.1942 (Rome); σειρῆνα θεάτρων, of Menander, ib.1183; ἔνθεον σειρῆνα χεύῃ ib.42(1).130.17 (Epid.).
III. ὁ, a kind of solitary bee or wasp, Arist.HA623b11.
IV. a small singingbird, Hsch.
2. prob. ostrich, LXX Is.13.21,al., 1Enoch 19.2.
V. as name of Zeus, dub. in Antim.94 (σείρινα acc. sg., codd.EM).
VI. a light garment, Harp. s.v. σείρινα, Phot. (Correctly written with -ει-, as name of a ship, IG22.1629.687.)
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Aeschines, Against Ctesiphon, 228
    • Euripides, Andromache, 936
    • Euripides, Helen, 169
    • Homer, Odyssey, 12.39
    • Old Testament, Isaiah, 1
    • Plato, Republic, 617b
    • Old Testament, Isaiah, 13.21
    • Plutarch, Caius Marius, 44
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 26
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