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Headword:
Apotrachêlizontes
Adler number: alpha,3609
Translated headword: throttling
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning they] strangling.
Eunapius [writes]: "and they were killing them, throttling them with ropes."[1]
And elsewhere: "you will not stop [enacting] the decrees until someone grabs you by the leg and breaks your neck."[2]
Greek Original:Apotrachêlizontes: apanchontes. Eunapios: kai hoi men autous diephtheiron schoinois apotrachêlizontes. kai authis: ou mê pausêsthe tôn psêphismatôn, prin an humas tou skelous labôn tis ektrachêlisêi.
Notes:
The headword participle is presumably extracted from the first quotation given.
[1]
Eunapius fr. 95 FHG (4.54); preserved only here.
[2] A loose approximation of
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 704-705 (using a different comound verb: web address 1 below); again at
psi 86.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; constitution; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; medicine; politics
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 June 2001@12:59:20.
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