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Headword:
*)apoqunni/zw
Adler number: alpha,3329
Translated headword: I write off
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] I dismiss and I underestimate.
Greek Original:*)apoqunni/zw: to\ a)pope/mpomai kai\ paralogi/zomai.
Notes:
Same entry in ps.-
Zonaras and, according to Adler, the
Ambrosian Lexicon. The rare headword verb, literally meaning 'I reject as worthy of a (sc. mere) tuna-fish', is identified by
Eustathius as a coinage of Lucian's; see
Jupiter Tragoedus 25, with
a)potequ/nnistai (and the adjective
qunnw=des meaning stupid).
For tuna/tunny cf.
theta 582, and more generally
theta 580,
theta 581,
theta 582,
theta 583,
theta 584.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 14 February 2002@15:52:02.
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