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Headword:
*dieskarifhsa/meqa
Adler number: delta,956
Translated headword: we trivialized
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning we destroyed.[1] For
ska/rifon is twigs and sticks. And such things are easily destroyed and easily dissipated. So
Isocrates [sc. uses the word].
[The verb]
skarifh/sasqai is to do something perfunctorily and not with the appropriate accuracy.
*dieskarifhsa/meqa: a)nti\ tou= dielu/samen. ska/rifon ga/r e)sti to\ ka/rfos kai\ fru/ganon. e)/sti de\ ta\ toiau=ta eu)dia/luta kai\ eu)fu/shta. ou(/tws *)isokra/ths. skarifh/sasqai/ e)sti to\ e)pisesurme/nws ti poiei=n kai\ mh\ kata\ th\n prosh/kousan a)kri/beian.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration (and
Photius) s.v. See further, next note.
[1] Not really, as the rest of the entry goes on to show; but "we destroyed" is the second, associated verb in the original source,
Isocrates 7.12 (web address 1).
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 October 2000@07:54:18.
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