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Headword:
Spôntes
Adler number: sigma,974
Translated headword: drawing in, drawing out, sucking in
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Used] with a genitive.[1] [Meaning they who are] gulping. "Then they became somewhat drunk, drinking continuously, and drawing in unmixed [wine]."[2]
Also [sc. attested is] spw=si ["they draw in"], [meaning] they fill themselves excessively. "They [were] draw[ing] in the wine to excess and without experience, and when they had fallen over they lay at random as each of them happened to."[3]
Greek Original:Spôntes: genikêi. rhophountes. eita hupebrechon, thamina pinontes, kai akratou spôntes. kai Spôsi, katakorôs emphorountai. hoi de adên kai apeirôs spôsi tou oinou kai anatrapentes ekeinto hôs etuchon hekastoi.
Notes:
The headword, presumably extracted from the first quotation given, is present active participle of
spa/w, masculine nominative plural. Cf.
sigma 973.
[1] Similarly in syntactical lexica.
[2] Quotation (again at
upsilon 179) unidentifiable. (Attributed by Valckenaer to
Aelian.)
[3]
Aelian fr. 76b Domingo-Forasté (73 Hercher), quoted already at
alpha 463 and
alpha 2108.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 February 2012@02:06:51.
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