striga

strĭga, ae, f. [stringo].

• A row of grain or hay cut down, a swath, windrow, Col. 2, 18, 2; cf. Fest. s. h. v. pp. 314 and 315. —
• II A furrow drawn lengthwise of the field, Jul. Front. Agr. p. 38.—In a camp, the spaces between the squadrons, Charis. 1, p. 85 P.

strīga, ae, f. [1. strix], a woman that brings harm to children,

• a hag, witch, Petr. 63, 4; cf. Fest. s. v. strigem, p. 314 Müll.: striga, γυνὴ φαρμακίς, Gloss. Philox.

1. striga, ae, f. (stringo, s. Fest. 314 [a] 30), I) der Strich, die lange Reihe des abgeschnittenen Getreides od. Grafes, der Schwaden, Colum. 2, 19, 2. – II) ein mit Zelten besetzter rechteckiger Raum, der Zeltplatz, die Zeltreihe, Hyg. de munit. castr. § 1. § 7 sqq. u.a. Charis. 109, 14. Caper 111, 12 K. Beda de orthogr. 291, 15 K. Vgl. Lange Hyg. de castr. munit. § 1. p. 107. – III) ein Streifen Land von Zenturienlänge, also 60 Fuß (von Mittag nach Mitternacht laufend), Gromat. vet. 206, 11 u.a.: prima, ibid. 207, 14: in strigas assignatur (ager), ibid. 238, 15. Vgl. Rudorff 2, 290 f.u. 419.

2. striga, ae, f. (strix), ein den Kindern verderbliches altes Weib, die alte Hexe, Petron. 63, 4.

1 striga [CL], strip of land, (mil.) avenue in a camp. ~a ‥ castrense vocabulum est, intervallum turmarum significans, in quo equi stringuntur Bede Orth. 52.

2 striga [CL < στριγά], stria [cf. AN estrie, strie < CL striga], witch, female evil spirit or (nocturnal) apparition, nightmare (v. et. strix). vidit [st]rigas [AS: hægtessan] capite pregredientes Prov. Durh. 11; lamias, quas vulgo mascas aut, in Gallica lingua, strias nominant, fisici dicunt nocturnas esse ymaginationes Gerv. Tilb. III 86.

1 strĭga, æ, f. (stringo), rangée de tas, tas, meule : Col. Rust. 2, 18, 2, cf. Fest. 314 ; P. Fest. 315 || sillon tracé en longueur sur le sol ; bande de terre [allongée comme un sillon, du nord au sud] : Grom. 206, 11, etc. || allée entre les tentes où lʼon pansait les chevaux : Char. 109, 14 ; Hyg. Grom. Mun. castr. 1 ; 7 ; Gloss. 5, 516, 11 ; 624, 8.

2 strĭga, (15) æ, f. (strix), sorcière [dont on effraie les enfants] : Petr. 63, 4.

striga , ae. f.
一把。一綑。巫女。

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(στρίγλα). A witch; a sorceress. The word is derived from strix (στρίξ), “a screech-owl,” a creature believed by the ancients to suck the blood of young children (Plaut. Pseud. iii. 2, 31; Pliny H. N. xi. 39, 95). There are many passages in classical literature that show the belief in witches to have been widespread. The most famous of ancient witch-stories are those in Petronius 63, where night-hags carry off a young boy and leave a manikin in his place; and in the Metamorphoses of Apuleins (bk. i. ad init.), where is an extremely gruesome tale, of considerable length, put into the mouth of a commercial traveller whose friend Socrates had been bled to death by witches. Horace (Sat. i. 8) relates the incantations of a number of sorceresses who dig up the bones of the dead in the cemetery on the Esquiline, and recall by their weird rites the famous scene in Macbeth. In the Fifth Epode is a still longer and very dramatic picture of witches burying a boy alive, so as to use his heart and liver in the preparation of magic potions. Cf. also Tibullus, i. 5; Ovid, Fast. vi. 133 foll.; and Fest. p. 314 Müll. The word venefica (γυνὴ φαρμακίς) is also used of a witch; saga (q. v.) means a fortune-teller, not necessarily malignant.