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Kurêbasei
Adler number: kappa,2751
Translated headword: will head-butt
Vetting Status: high
Translation: 'Head-butting' is the term for the battle with horns that goes on among insensate animals. Or the collisions of rams.
Aristophanes [writes]: "but if he slips out in this way, he will head-butt against my leg." [Meaning] he would fight against his leg. Or he will fall, if he were to slip away, or flee.
Greek Original:Kurêbasei: kurêbasia legetai hê dia keratôn machê, hêper en tois alogois zôiois ginetai. ê hai plêxeis tôn tragôn. Aristophanês: ei d' ekklinei ge deuri, pros skelos kurêbasei. an pros to skelos macheitai. ê diapeseitai, ean hupostalêi, ê phugêi.
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Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; poetry; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 26 March 2008@10:19:49.
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