[Meaning] to heal.[1] Whence Athenians [or: Attic-dialect-users] call the needlewoman an akestria.[2]
*)ake/sasqai kai\ *)ake/sai: i)a/sasqai. o(/qen *)attikoi\ th\n h)ph/trian a)ke/strian kalou=sin.
In the Greek there are twin headwords, respectively aorist middle infinitive and aorist active infinitive of
a)ke/omai; see further below. Same or similar entry elsewhere; see the references at
Photius alpha729 Theodoridis; also Kassel-Austin, PCG II p.320 (s.v.
Antiphanes).
[1] For this equivalence, impossible to reflect in translation, cf. also
alpha 842,
alpha 846,
alpha 848,
alpha 851,
eta 165. (Another one in
alpha 845 etc.)
[2] For 'needlewoman' see
eta 432 -- but this assertion, repeated there, makes little sense.
Eustathius (1647.56) vigorously denies the relationship between the word for stitching and the word
akestria for 'healer', and this entry perhaps reflects a confused correction of an earlier one.
The active infinitive is anomalous, as the active form of this verb occurs only once, apparently a learned back-formation of Apollonius Rhodius. See
alpha 856 for a fuller discussion of this verb.
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