1. Σείριος · Seirios — Beekes
The corpus record
σείριος
seirios
Sirius, the dog star
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Where it lives
- Shield of Heracles 2 · 6.18/10k
- Works and Days 3 · 5.2/10k
- Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
- Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
- Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
What it meant
2. Σείριος · Seirios — Chantraine
3. Σείριος · Seirios — Frisk
4. σείριος · seirios — LSJ
name of the dog-star, Sirius, whose visible heliacal rising marked the season of greatest heat (cf. Gem. 17.39), Hes. Op. 587, 609, Sc. 153, 397, Alc. 39, E. Hec. 1104 (lyr.); Σείριος κύων A. Ag. 967, S. Fr. 803; Σείριος ἀστήρ Hes. Op. 417:—of the sun, acc. to Hsch., in Archil. 61, cf. ἀκτὶς Σειρία Lyc. 397 and Sch. ad loc.; σ. ἠέλιος Orph. A. 120; of stars, Ibyc. 3, Alcm. 23.62, cf. E. Fr. 779.8 cod. Longin., of a bright planet, Id. IA 7 (acc. to Theo Sm. p.146 H., dub., anap.).
Adj. destructive, σείριαι νᾶες Tim. Pers. 192.
σείριον πάθος, = σειρίασις, Sor. 1.124.
σείριον (sc. ἱμάτιον), a light summer garment, Harp. s.v. σείρινα, Phot. s.v. σειρῆνα. (Suid. derives it from a form σείρ gen. σειρός, = ἥλιος, which is suspect.)
In the wild
- σειρίου · seiriou Aeschylus, Agamemnon 966–967
- Σείριος · Seirios Euripides, Hecuba 1100 (DIORISIS sentence 621)
- Σείριος · Seirios Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (DIORISIS sentence 26)
- Σειρίου · Seiriou Shield of Heracles 151–153
- Σείριος · Seirios Shield of Heracles 393–400
- Σείριος · Seirios Works and Days 417–419
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. σείριος (scan p. 1368; entry #5455).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. σείριος (scan p. 1014; entry #7149).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. σείριος (scan p. 1660; entry #5093).
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