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συ_ρίζω , A.Pr.357, Th.463, Hp.Int.10, E.Ion 501 (lyr.), Apollod. 3.10.2; Att. συρίττω Pl.Tht.203b, Arist.HA611b26; Dor. συρίσδω Theoc.1.3, etc.: fut.
A.“συρίξομαι” Luc.Bis Acc.12, etc.; “συρίσω” Hero Spir.1.41, Longus 2.23; “συριῶ” LXX Is.5.26, al.: aor. “ἐσύριξα” Ar. Pl.689; later “ἐσύρισα” Babr.114.4, Luc.Harm.2: (Συρίγγ-yw, cf. σῦριγξ):—play the σῦριγξ, pipe, “ὅτε . . συρίζεις, ὦ Πάν” E. l.c.; “ἁδὺ δὲ καὶ τὺ συρίσδες” Theoc.1.3; “συρίζων ὁ κηροδέτας κάλαμος” E.IT1125 (lyr.): c. acc. cogn., “συρίζων ποιμνίτας ὑμεναίους” Id.Alc. 576 (lyr.).
II. make any whistling or hissing sound, hiss like a serpent, “συρίξας ἐγώ” Ar.Pl.689; ψόφος . . οἷον συριττούσης τῆς γλώττης, of the tongue sounding ς, Pl.Tht.203b; “συριζόντων κατὰ πρύμναν . . πηδαλίων” E.IT 431 (lyr.); of the wind, whistle, Babr. l.c.: c. acc. cogn., “συρίζων φόβον” A.Pr.357; “φιμοὶ δὲ συρίζουσι βάρβαρον βρόμον” Id.Th.463.
2. hiss an actor (cf. “σῦριγξ” 1.2), “ἐξέπιπτες ἐγὼ δ᾽ ἐσύριττον” D.18.265, cf. Timocl.2 D., Luc.Nigr.10, etc.
b. c. acc. pers., hiss him, D.21.226:—Pass., Aeschin.3.76,231, Pl.Ax.368d, Aristid.Or.34(50).7.
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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