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Headword:
Apospodêsai
Adler number: alpha,3541
Translated headword: to wear away
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to cause to disappear from sight. From
spodos ["ash"]. For it makes the pre-existing substance of the wood disappear. Or to drive off and to make disappear, to throw away that which has been pounded.
Aristophanes in
Birds [writes]: "to wear away the nails of my fingers".
Greek Original:Apospodêsai: aphanisai. apo tês spodou. hautê gar aphanizei tên proüparxasan hulên tôn xulôn. ê apokrousai kai aphanisai, tuptomenon ekbalein. Aristophanês Ornisin: apospodêsai tous onuchas tôn daktulôn.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Birds 8 (web address 1), with scholion.
[1] This "fingers" actually means toes.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; medicine; science and technology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 4 June 2001@17:34:34.
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