[Meaning] to be beaten like groats.[1] Also [sc, attested is] 'I grind', the [verb that means] I beat.[2]
*pti/ssesqai: to\ di/khn ptisa/nhs tu/ptesqai. kai\ *pti/ssw, to\ tu/ptw.
The headword is present middle infinitive of the verb
pti/ssw (which appears below as a secondary headword). There are only a few attestations of this form, the most striking being Dio Chrysostom 37.45 (dealing with the famous anecdote when the philosopher
Anaxarchus, while being beaten, exclaims "grind the sack of
Anaxarchus, you grind not
Anaxarchus!")
For an apparently related word see
pi 3029.
[1] Adler compares
Lexicon Ambrosianum 1473.
[2] = ps.-Herodian,
Epimerismi 111 (and already, here, at the end of
pi 3024). This present indicative active, first person singular, is probably a generic lexical reference rather than a quotation from a particular source. Outside lexica and grammars it only appears in a context-less line from
Aristophanes' lost play
Centaurs.
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