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συριγ-μός , ,
A.shrill piping sound, hissing, as of serpents, Arist.HA536a6, Str.9.3.10 (pl.); in sign of derision, X.Smp.6.5; as a military signal, Aen. Tact.24.17; “ς. καὶ χλευασμοίPlb.30.29.6; ς. κάλων the whistling of rigging, D.H.Comp.16; of the sound of sibilants, ib.14; hissing in the theatre, Plu.Cic.13; of the cry of elephants, Arr.An.5.17.7; singing in the ears, Dsc.2.78.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Strabo, Geography, 9.3.10
    • Xenophon, Symposium, 6.5
    • Polybius, Histories, 30.29.6
    • Plutarch, Cicero, 13
    • Arrian, Anabasis, 5.17.7
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 14
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 16
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