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                    "description": "ἡ, gen. Σφιγγός, Boeot. Φίξ, Φικός ; — Sphinx, Φῖκ’ ὀλοήν Hes. <i>Th.<\/i> 326 (where the Boeot. form Φίξ is given by Sch., cf. Pl. <i>Cra.<\/i> 414d), cf. Apollod. 3.5.8; on the riddle of the S. guessed by Oedipus, Ath. 10.456b, Arg. S. <i>OT<\/i>, A. Frr. 235-7, E. <i>Ph.<\/i> 1507 (anap.), cf. Sch. E. <i>Ph.<\/i> 45, Str. 17.1.28, 32; cf. ἀνδρόσφιγξ· σφίγγες καὶ γρῦπες as ornaments of a precinct of Dionysus, Hdt. 4.79; Sphinxes on a shield, E. <i>El.<\/i> 471 (lyr.). <i>metaph<\/i> of <b>rapacious<\/b> persons, Anaxil. 22, <i>Carm.Pop.<\/i> 46.24, 33; Μεγαρικαὶ σ., = πόρναι, Call.Com. 23; also of those <b>who speak riddles<\/b>, Σφίγγ’ ἄρρεν΄, οὐ μάγειρον Strato Com. 1.1; ἡ ἀφροσύνη… σ. ἐστιν Cebes 3. a kind of <b>ape<\/b>, found in Ethiopia, Agatharch. 73, Artem. ap. Str. 16.4.16, Plin. <i>HN<\/i> 8.72, Ael. <i>NA<\/i> 16.15, and v. σφιγγίον II. (The form Φίξ connects the name with Mount Φίκιον in Boeotia, cf. Sch. Hes. <i>l.c.<\/i>, and is found in Plaut. <i>Aul.<\/i> 701, <b>Picis divitiis qui aureos montis colunt ego solus supero<\/b>; cf. Non. p. 222 L. ; Βῖκας = Σφίγγας, Hsch. (Σφίγξ may be a later form); Σφίξ, gen. Σφικός, Choerob. (Sophronius) in Theod. p. 400H.)"
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