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Headword:
Aloô
Adler number: alpha,1330
Translated headword: I thresh, smite, drive around, smash
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The [verb that means] I break.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the active participle]
a)low=n ["threshing"], [meaning one who is] leading [beasts] around in a circle from without, as those on the threshing floors [do]. Or beating, from those who are smiting the ears of grain.
Aristophanes [writes]: "the fellow will kill me, driving me around since early this morning."[2]
Aelian [writes]: "some smiting him with fists, some with clubs, some with stones, and some with whatever else fell into their hands forced his life to be cut short."[3]
Also [sc. attested is the middle participle]
a)low/menos, [meaning one who is] being trodden, being rubbed together.
"They laid him down under a tame elephant, so that, for fear that he was going to die from being trodden by the beast, he would not get any sleep."[4]
Aloô: to klô. kai Aloôn, exôthen en kuklôi periagôn, hôs hoi en tais halôsin. ê tuptôn, apo tôn koptontôn tous stachuas. Aristophanês: apolei m' aloôn anthrôpos ex heôthinou. Ailianos: hoi men tines pugmais, hoi de korunais, hoi de lithois, hoi de hoti pote parepipten autois hupocheirion aloôntes auton, aporragênai tên psuchên ênankasan. kai Aloômenos, patoumenos, suntribomenos. elephanti hêmerôi hupeklinan auton, hina dediôs, hôs mellôn hupo tou thêros aloômenos apothnêskein, hupnou mê tuchêi.
Notes:
cf. generally
alpha 1305,
alpha 1321.
[1] Likewise, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Thesmophoriazusae 2.
[3]
Aelian fr. 67c Domingo-Forasté (64 Hercher); cf.
mu 770,
tau 940,
upsilon 639.
[4] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. (Adler suggests
Aelian again.)
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 May 2000@11:46:21.
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