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Headword:
Akrocheirizesthai
Adler number: alpha,1023
Translated headword: to struggle at arms length
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to box or wrestle[1] against another man without close engagement, or to practice with another wholly with the extremities of the hands.[2]
Also [sc. attested is the athlete] Akrokhersites, so named because by seizing the fingertips of his opponent he would break them off and not let go before ascertaining that the man had given in. There was also Leontiskos, a Messenian out of
Sicily, who competed in a similar way; this man used to wrestle.[3]
Also [sc. attested is the term]
a)kroxeiri/s, [meaning] the top of the hand.[4]
Akrocheirizesthai: pukteuein ê pankratiazein pros heteron aneu sumplokês, ê holôs akrais tais chersi met' allou gumnazesthai. kai Akrochersitês houtô kaloumenos. lambanomenos gar akrôn tôn cheirôn tou antagônistou ekla kai ou proteron êphiei, prin aisthoito apagoreusantos. ên de kai Leontiskos, Messênios ek Sikelias, paraplêsiôs agônizomenos: houtos de epalaie. kai Akrocheiris, to akron tês cheiros.
Notes:
[1] More exactly, to engage in the pankration, a no-holds-barred combination of boxing and wrestling (
pi 11).
[2] Same material in other lexica, including
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon; also in the
scholia to [
Plato],
Alcibiades 1 107E, from where the headword is evidently quoted.
[3] Abbreviated from
Pausanias 6.4.1-3. The actual name of this "Akrokhersites" was Sostratos (of
Sikyon); cf.
sigma 866. Leontiskos has his own Suda entry at
lambda 258, where it is stated - going beyond what
Pausanias actually warrants - that he too was known as Akrokhersites.
[4] Attested only here and, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 7 March 2000@02:24:26.
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