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Headword:
Aigizein
Adler number: alphaiota,44
Translated headword: to rend asunder
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to tear apart. [The verb is formed] out of a metaphor; from which also 'to be rent asunder' [
ai)gi/zesqai] [is derived] from squalls [
kataigi/des].[1]
Aeschylus [uses the word].[2] The same [author] in
Hedone also calls fawnskins this.[3]
Greek Original:Aigizein: diaspan. ek metaphoras: par' ho kai to aigizesthai apo tôn kataigidôn. Aischulos. ho d' autos en Hêdonêi kai tas nebridas houtô kalei.
Notes:
Same or similar material, variously, in other lexica (notably
Hesychius alpha1709).
The latter part of the entry reappears under
eta 104.
[1] cf.
alphaiota 61.
[1]
Aeschylus fr. 481 Radt (either of these infinitives).
[2]
Aeschylus fr. 78 Mette.
Keywords: clothing; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; poetry; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 27 October 2002@18:23:34.
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