The Attic Tragedians—for the use seems to have extant examples there only—several times apply the word σȗριγξ to the wheel of a chariot or some part of it. The passages are these:—

Aesch. Supp. 181:

Id. Sept. 205:

Soph. Electra, 720:

Eur. Hipp. 1234:

Id. Iph. A. 227:

The current explanation of the word in this application is given by Liddell and Scott thus: ‘σȗριγξ, II., anything like a pipe; 1. a spear-case = δορατοθήκη, II. 19, 387. 2. the box or hole in the nave of a wheel,’ with references selected from the above.