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Headword:
Aleipsas
Adler number: alpha,1166
Translated headword: having oiled
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Used] with an accusative. [Meaning he] having stimulated. From a metaphor of athletes.[1]
"Oiling into endurance those who are being wronged".[2]
And
Aristophanes [writes]: "you oiled from these [sc. olives] at the New-moons".[3] Because of these being the days of honour.
Aleipsas. aitiatikêi. diegeiras. apo metaphoras tôn athlêtôn. eis karterian aleiphôn tous adikoumenous. kai Aristophanês: aleipsasth' ap' autôn tais noumêniais. dia to tautas einai timias tôn hêmerôn.
Notes:
The headword, aorist active participle (masculine nominative singular) of
a)lei/fw, is evidently quoted from somewhere.
cf. generally
alpha 1165.
[1] Thus far the entry (minus the syntactical comment) =
Photius,
Lexicon alpha914 Theodoridis.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable in this precise form, but probably from one of Theodoret's letters, where the key (and striking) phrase 'oiling into endurance' occurs.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 999, misquoted; cf.
nu 516 (where the quotation is accurate).
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 May 2000@16:35:28.
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