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Headword: *spodei=n
Adler number: sigma,954
Translated headword: thrash
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to beat.[1] "It is unanimously decided to thrash all the blowhards." Aristophanes in Birds [sc. writes this].[2]
Greek Original:
*spodei=n: tu/ptein. o(moqumado\n spodei=n a(/pantas tou\s a)lazo/nas dokei=. *)aristofa/nhs *)/ornisi.
Notes:
[1] cf. Photius sigma467 Theodoridis (where the headword is corruptly transmitted as spodou=n); and see also Hesychius sigma1536 and sigma1541 for other forms. The headword is present active infinitive of spode/w, extracted from the quotation given.
[2] Aristophanes, Birds 1015-16, with a gloss from the scholia thereto.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; law; poetry; politics; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 19 March 2014@00:28:16.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (typo, status) on 19 March 2014@00:46:58.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics; raised status) on 19 March 2014@06:19:05.

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