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Headword:
*plu/netai
Adler number: pi,1816
Translated headword: is abused
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] is railed at, is basely insulted.[1]
"For 'to abuse' amongst the ancients [is used] for to disgrace; by a misuse of language disgracing [someone is expressed by the verb] to abuse: as somewhere
Menander too [shows]: "if you should thus speak badly of my wife, I will abuse your father and you and all your own." Meaning I will disgrace [them]."[2]
*plu/netai: loidorei=tai, ai)sxrw=s u(bri/zetai. *plu/nein ga\r para\ toi=s palaioi=s a)nti\ tou= e)le/gxein: plu/nein kataxrhstikw=s to\ e)le/gxein: w(/s pou kai\ *me/nandros: e)a\n kakw=s mou th\n gunai=ka ou(/tw le/gh|s, to\n pate/ra kai\ se\ tou/s te sou\s e)gw\ plunw=. a)nti\ tou= e)le/gcw.
Notes:
cf. generally
pi 1817,
pi 1818,
pi 1819. In the present entry the verb
plu/nw, literally I launder/wash, is used in the figurative sense of LSJ s.v., II.
[1] Same or similar material in other lexica. The headword (third person singular, present indicative middle/passive, of
plu/nw) is evidently is quoted from somewhere.
[2]
Artemidorus 2.4, quoting
Menander fr. 608 Kock (665 Koerte, now 433 Kassel-Austin).
Translated by: Bobbiejo Winfrey on 19 July 2003@09:10:33.
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