[Meaning] having caused to be tumbled out into the dirt.[1] A 'rolling-ground' is the place where horses station themselves and do this. Thus
Aristophanes in
Frogs [writes]: "many rolling-grounds and tumblings-out."[2]
*)ecali/sas: e)kkulisqh=nai poih/sas ei)s th\n ko/nin. a)lindh/qra de\ o( to/pos, e)n w(=| tiqe/ntes e(autou\s oi( i(/ppoi tou=to poiou=sin. w(s *)aristofa/nhs e)n *batra/xois: polla\s a)lindh/qras te kai\ e)kkuli/smata.
Almost certainly derived, as Adler states, from the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Clouds 32 (where the headword occurs: web address 1); and cf.
Etymologicum Magnum 64.16.
[1] The headword is aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular, of
e)cali/ndw; cf.
epsilon 1726.
[2] An imprecise quotation of
Aristophanes,
Frogs 904 (web address 2), where only "many rolling-grounds" occurs. The words "and tumblings-out" are an intrusive gloss from the
scholia. The line is quoted accurately at
alpha 1233,
alpha 4516, and
lambda 441.
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