σειρά,
Ionic dialect σειρή, Doric dialect σηρά [[ 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus in “Anecdota Graeca - MSS. Bibl. Oxon.” 2.260, “Etymologicum Gudianum” 497.47 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]: ἡ:— cord, rope, σειράς τ᾽ εὐπλέκτους [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.115; σειρὴν δὲ πλεκτήν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.175 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; σ. χρυσείη cord of gold, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.19, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 153c: _metaphorically_, σειραῖς.. ἁμαρτιῶν σφίγγεται LXX.Pro.5.22 ] LXX+8th c.BC+]; σειραὶ ζόφου variant in [[ NT.2Pet.2.4: see also σαύρα IV. ] NT]
__2 trace (compare σειραφόρος), [[ 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 1.141. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 cord or line with a noose, lasso, used by the Sagartians and Sarmatians, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.85, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 1.21.5: hence the Parthians are called σειραφόροι, 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 a bandage, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(1).777] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; σ. μονομερής, διμερής, κτλ. [[ 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus “de fasciis - Opera Hippocratis et Galeni” 23, 24, +others ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__5 ἡ σ. τοῦ βίρρου,= cimussatio (probably edge, border), [[Dosith. p.435K. ] Refs]
__II metaphorically of an animal's tail, [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 119, 385. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]