[Meaning] having caused to be tumbled out into the dirt.[1] A 'rolling-ground' is the place where horses station themselves and do this. Thus
Aristophanes in
Frogs [writes]: "many rolling-grounds and tumblings-out."[2]
Exalisas: ekkulisthênai poiêsas eis tên konin. alindêthra de ho topos, en hôi tithentes heautous hoi hippoi touto poiousin. hôs Aristophanês en Batrachois: pollas alindêthras te kai ekkulismata.
Almost certainly derived, as Adler states, from the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Clouds 32 (where the headword occurs: web address 1); and cf.
Etymologicum Magnum 64.16.
[1] The headword is aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular, of
e)cali/ndw; cf.
epsilon 1726.
[2] An imprecise quotation of
Aristophanes,
Frogs 904 (web address 2), where only "many rolling-grounds" occurs. The words "and tumblings-out" are an intrusive gloss from the
scholia. The line is quoted accurately at
alpha 1233,
alpha 4516, and
lambda 441.
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