[Meaning] to strike the jaw with the bare hand. What they say about the forehead also.
*(rapi/sai: pata/cai th\n gna/qon a(plh=| th=| xeiri/. o(\ le/gousi kai\ e)pi\ ko/rrhs.
The headword is aorist infinitive of
r(api/zw, a verb related to the noun
r(api/s, genitive
r(api/dos: see
rho 46 and the cross-references there. (In context the verb may, but certainly does not have to, imply striking with such a stick.)
Same entry in
Photius (rho42 Theodoridis), similar ones elsewhere. The headword is evidently quoted from somewhere -- perhaps
Plutarch,
Alcibiades 16.5 (where the over-competitive A. does this to Taureas, a rival
choregos).
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