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Headword:
Alapaxai
Adler number: alpha,1074
Translated headword: to drain, to exhaust
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to ravage, to empty out, to make level. From a metaphor of the plant lapathon, purgative of the stomach.
Greek Original:Alapaxai: porthêsai, kenôsai, homalisai. apo metaphoras lapathou botanês, kenôtikês gastros.
Notes:
The headword is aorist active infinitive of
a)lapa/zw, quoted from
Homer (
Iliad 9.136 = 278). Same or similar glossing in other lexica.
cf.
lambda 114.
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food; imagery; medicine; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 31 March 2000@00:38:25.
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