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Headword: *xeirw/sasqai
Adler number: chi,272
Translated headword: to master
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to subordinate.[1]
Aelian [writes]: "and from these to master the man and to keep him as a private friend, so to speak."[2]
Greek Original:
*xeirw/sasqai: u(pota/cai. *ai)liano/s: kai\ e)k tou/twn xeirw/sasqai to\n a)/ndra kai\ e)/xein au)to\n w(s ei)pei=n i)dio/cenon.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica. The headword, aorist middle infinitive of xeiro/w, is perhaps extracted from the quotation given below, though the other lexica do not have it, and there are numerous other possibilities (from Herodotus and Thucydides onwards).
[2] Aelian fr. 187 Domingo-Forasté (184 Hercher).
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 March 2008@15:21:15.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added note and keyword, set status) on 29 March 2008@21:00:12.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 30 March 2008@05:41:38.
Catharine Roth (updated reference in note 2) on 17 October 2012@01:18:31.
David Whitehead (tweaked and expanded notes) on 11 November 2013@06:32:49.

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