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σάλπ-ιγξ , ιγγος, ἡ,
A.war-trumpet, “ὅτε τ᾽ ἴαχε σάλπιγξ” Il.18.219; “ς. ἡ ἱερά” Artem.1.56, cf. Lyd.Mens.4.73:—on various σάλπιγγες, v. Poll.4.85 sq., Sch.Il. l.c.:—“ς. Τυρσηνική” A.Eu.568, E. Ph.1378, Heracl.831; ὑπαὶ σάλπιγγος by sound of trumpet, S.El.711, cf. Ar.Ach.1001; also ἀπὸ ς. X.Eq.Mag.3.12, Plb.4.13.1.
2. metaph., Πιερικὰ ς., of Pindar, AP7.34 (Antip. Sid.); οὐρανίη ς. thunder, Tryph.327, Nonn.D.2.558.
II. = σάλπισμα, ap.Arist. Rh.1408a9.
III. ς. θαλασσία, = στρόμβος 2, Archil.192; cf. σάλπη.
IV. name of a bird, Hsch. (perh. = σαλπιγκτής 2).
V. a kind of comet, Ptol.Tetr.90.
VI. epith. of Athena at Argos, Lyc.915,986, Paus.2.21.3.
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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