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Headword:
*(/iei
Adler number: iota,213
Translated headword: throws
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] sends, releases.[1]
"He threw himself into cold water, asserting that baths are the old age of men."[2]
Greek Original:*(/iei: pe/mpei, a)fi/hsin. o( de\ i(/ei e(auto\n ei)s u(/dwr yuxro\n fa/skwn, gh=ras a)nqrw/pwn ei)=nai ta\ balanei=a.
Notes:
[1] Thematic third person singular present (or imperfect) active of
i(/hmi. Similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon (see the references at
Photius iota37 Theodoridis), and cf. the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 3.221 (where the optative
ei(/h occurs); and cf.
iota 226.
[2] An approximation of
Philostratus,
Life of Apollonius 1.16 (apparently meaning that hot baths make people old).
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; medicine; rhetoric
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 May 2006@01:09:52.
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