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Headword: Larungizein
Adler number: lambda,130
Translated headword: to croak
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] broadening the voice and not speaking naturally, but seeking to use the larynx rather laboriously. Demosthenes in the [speech] For Ktesiphon [sc. uses the word].[1]
Also [sc. attested is] "they croak," [meaning] they shout. "The crows stood around up and down, making a row and squawking most impudently, in the way crows croak."[2]
Greek Original:
Larungizein: to platunein tên phônên kai mê kata phusin phthengesthai, all' epitêdeuein periergoteron tôi larungi chrêsthai. Dêmosthenês en tôi huper Ktêsiphôntos. kai Larungizousi, boôsin. hoi de korakes periiptamenoi anô kai katô, thoruboumenoi kai kekragotes meta pollês aselgeias, hoion hoi korakes larungizousi.
Notes:
[1] Demosthenes 18.291 (web address 1), cited from Harpokration s.v.
[2] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 20 Habrich; cf. alpha 4140.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; medicine; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 December 2000@07:14:07.
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