[Meaning he] reviling,[1] or attacking, or scorning, or jeering.
*)epitwqa/zwn: e)piloidorou/menos, h)\ e)pembai/nwn, h)\ kauxw/menos, h)\ xleua/zwn.
The headword is present active participle, masculine nominative singular, of the compound verb
e)pitwqa/zw; cf. generally
tau 855. It has the same glossing not only in
Photius and other lexica but also in the
scholia to [
Plato],
Axiochos 364C, from where it is evidently quoted.
Otherwise, except in a letter attributed to
Hippocrates (
Epistles 17 line 91), it is attested only from the second century CE onwards -- with a particular concentration in Appian -- and is more common in late Antiquity and the Byzantine period.
[1] This is again an uncommon verb. Its only putative attestation, before the Byzantine period (
Josephus Genesius,
Basileia 3.9.20: tenth century CE) is a conjecture by Casaubon in a passage in
Polybius for
a)poloidore/w, which does not appear elsewhere either (
Polybius 15.33.4).
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