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*)apo/triyis ["trampling"], me/llhsis ["intending"],[1] a)pa/ggelsis ["reporting"], a)gw/nisis ["contesting"], proa/ggelsis [forewarning"], te/kmarsis ["inferring from signs"], ka/qecis ["holding"], pla/nhsis ["wandering"], dia/feucis ["escaping"], e)fo/rmhsis ["lying at anchor"], o(/plisis ["arming"], ce/nisis ["entertaining"], kou/fisis ["relieving"], bla/yis ["harming"], e)pai/nesis ["praising"], yo/fhsis ["sounding"], dia/rpasis ["snatching"], gunai/kisis ["behaving like a woman"], la/lhsis ["chatting"]:[2] [all are] nouns with similar endings.
Also [sc. attested is the related participle] a)potri/bomenos ["he trampling"], meaning [he] hindering, thwarting. "Though Hannibal was in a bad way, he continued trampling his enemies."[3]

*)apo/triyis, me/llhsis, a)pa/ggelsis, a)gw/nisis, proa/ggelsis, te/kmarsis, ka/qecis, pla/nhsis, dia/feucis, e)fo/rmhsis, o(/plisis, ce/nisis, kou/fisis, bla/yis, e)pai/nesis, yo/fhsis, dia/rpasis, gunai/kisis, la/lhsis, o(moiokata/lhkta o)no/mata. kai\ *)apotribo/menos, a)nti\ tou= e)mpodi/zwn, a)pei/rgwn. o( de\ *)anni/bas e)n kakoi=s w)\n e)/mene tou\s polemi/ous a)potribo/menos.

The first and principal part of this entry is also in Photius and elsewhere.
[1] In some versions of this list, mele/thsis "practising".
[2] See Aristophanes fr. 949 Kassel-Austin.
[3] Polybius 3.102.5.

David Whitehead (supplmented translation; added keywords; cosmetics) on 5 July 2001@09:12:28.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 22 August 2002@08:08:48.
David Whitehead (augmented notes; another keyword; betacode and other cosmetics) on 8 April 2012@05:19:56.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword) on 22 December 2014@10:56:02.
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