[Meaning] they blow away. For sailors call blowing 'brushing'.
*diayai/rousi: diapne/ousi. yai/rein ga\r to\ pnei=n oi( nautikoi\ le/gousin.
Photius,
Lexicon s.v. has the same entry, and for a variant see
Hesychius,
Lexicon delta1471:
*diayai/rousi: diapne/ousi. kai\ yai/rein ga\r le/gomen to\ i(sti/on, o(/tan e)lafrw=s diapne/htai; "they brush away: they blow away. And we say 'to brush the sail', when the wind is blowing gently through”. The primary source is probably a scholion to
Aristophanes,
Birds 1717, where
diayai/rousi is used when the poet is caricaturing
Euripides’ language (see fr. 926 Nauck).
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