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Headword: Alexikakon
Adler number: alpha,1137
Translated headword: for warding off evil
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] remedial/remedy,[1] antidote.
Purifying and taking care of evil.[2]
Also [sc. attested is the vocative] a)leci/kake, that is evil-averter, one keeping terrible things away.[3]
Greek Original:
Alexikakon: alexipharmakon, antipharmakon. kakias kathartikon kai therapeutikon. kai Alexikake, toutestin apotropaie, ho ta deina apeirgôn.
Notes:
The headword, masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective, is evidently quoted from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities.
cf. generally alpha 1130 and the other cross-references there.
[1] See alpha 1139.
[2] Likewise in Photius and elsewhere.
[3] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Clouds 1372, where the word occurs.
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 April 2000@08:54:42.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 12 June 2002@06:58:43.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; betacode and other cosmetics) on 3 February 2012@08:42:55.
David Whitehead on 29 May 2015@11:43:43.

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