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Aristophanes in Acharnians [writes]: "he would not have trotted off lightly."[1] Meaning escaped easily and nonchalantly and got away. For pli/c ["trot"] [is] a pace; and pli/gmata [are] leaps. Whence also [we find] "astride" [expressed by] a)mfipli/c in Sophocles in Triptolemos.[2] And Homer [writes]: "well did they gallop, well did they stride with their feet."[3] But they used to say pli/ca also of the distance from the thumb to the forefinger. Also the bone between the thighbones.[4]

Apeplixato: Aristophanês Acharneusin: ouk an elaphrôs apeplixato. anti tou eucherôs kai meta rhaistônês apeseisato kai apephuge. plix gar to bêma: kai pligmata, ta pêdêmata. enthen kai to peribadên amphiplix para Sophoklei en Triptolemôi. kai Homêros: hai d' eu men trôchôn, eu de plissonto podesin. elegon de plixan kai to apo tou anticheiros eis ton lichanon daktulon diastêma. kai to metaxu tôn mêrôn ostoun.

The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is third person singular, aorist, of a)popli/ttomai.
[1] Aristophanes, Acharnians 217 (web address 1 below). The scholia there supply the material for the present entry. For the full content of the line see under phi 144. See also pi 1076, pi 1771, pi 1779, pi 1780.
[2] Sophocles fr. 596 Pearson (of the coils of serpents).
[3] Homer, Odyssey 6.318 (web address 2 below).
[4] i.e. the pelvis.

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