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Headword:
*)ekkauli/zwn
Adler number: epsilon,371
Translated headword: de-stalking
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he] breaking off, pulling up. From a metaphor of people pulling up vegetables.
Greek Original:*)ekkauli/zwn: a)poklw=n, a)naspw=n. a)po\ metafora=s tw=n ta\ la/xana a)naspw/ntwn.
Notes:
From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 825, where the headword (a present participle in the nominative masculine singular) occurs. See web address 1.
The question of a 'metaphor' arises because in context the participle is not used literally but as a description of Kleon's (
kappa 1731) exploitation of public office-holders.
Web address 1
Keywords: agriculture; biography; botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; imagery; politics
Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 July 2006@08:59:37.
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