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Headword: Apesphakelisen
Adler number: alpha,3075
Translated headword: had a seizure, had frost-bitten limbs
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The scholars [gloss it as] he/she/it was mortified, was convulsed. But it also means sank under a weight of misery; further, died suddenly. Aristophanes [sc. uses this word] to mean he/she/it was dragged away.[1]
Greek Original:
Apesphakelisen: hoi men grammatikoi esapê, apesphendonêse. sêmainei de kai to apekakêsen: eti to exaiphnês apethanen. ho de Aristophanês anti tou apespasthê.
Notes:
Same or similar material in other lexica.
[1] Aristophanes fr. 424 Kock, now 436 Kassel-Austin (this word only). LSJ s.v. also cites Herodotus 4.28.4 (of horses) and Plutarch, Lycurgus 16 (of the convulsions experienced by weakling Spartan babies when their mothers bathe them in wine); cf. epsilon 2090.
Keywords: children; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; medicine; women; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 January 2001@22:11:13.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented note; added keyword; cosmetics) on 20 March 2002@08:22:21.
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