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Headword:
*)aposobei=
Adler number: alpha,3536
Translated headword: shoos away
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Used] with an accusative. [Meaning he/she/it] chases off.[1]
"He stood up so as to shoo the one flying at him away from his head."[2]
Also [sc. attested is]
a)posobw=men ["let us be off!"], [meaning] let us hurry away.
Menander [sc. uses the word].[3]
*)aposobei=: ai)tiatikh=|. a)podiw/kei. o( de\ a)ne/sth w(s a)posobh/swn th=s kefalh=s au)to\n e)pipeto/menon. kai\ *)aposobw=men, a)potre/xwmen. *me/nandros.
Notes:
[1] The gloss of a scholiast to
Aristophanes,
Knights 60, where the headword occurs. Same or similarly in other lexica.
[2] (cf. John of
Antioch fr. 311 Roberto.) This word is used especially of scaring off birds, as here.
[3]
Menander fr. 997 Kock, 525 K.-A.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 3 June 2001@19:39:28.
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