συρφετός

A. anything dragged or swept together, sweepings, refuse, litter, χόρτος καὶ ς. Hes. Op. 606, cf. Call. Ap. 109, Plu. 2.97f; συρφετὸν ἡγεῖσθαί τι ib.811e; ς. ῥημάτων Jul. Or. 7.218c; cf. σύρμα 1.2.

2. metaph., mixed crowd, mob, rabble, ς. δούλων Pl. Grg. 489c; τῷ πολλῷ ς. to the many-headed mob, Id. Tht. 152c; ἐλθεῖν εἰς τοιοῦτον ς. Euphro 10.6, cf. Jul. Or. 5.173a.

b. of a single person, one of the mob, οὐ κομψός, ἀλλὰ ς. Pl. Hp.Ma. 288d:—hence as Adj., of or like the mob, vulgar, Simp. in Epict. p.86 D., Sch.Hermog. in Rh. 4.40 W.