*ka)/xezen: *)aristofa/nhs, a)nti\ tou= kai\ a)pepa/tei.
The headword is a crasis of
kai\ e)/xezen, i.e. 'and' plus the third person singular imperfect of the verb
xe/zw. The form was likelier to need glossing because of the crasis than for unfamiliarity of the verb itself, since
xe/zw has survived into Modern Greek.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 82 (web address 1). Adler indicates that this entry was copied from
kappa 184 (
ka)/kxezen). Apparently the text of
Aristophanes varied between using
xe/zw and the compound
e)kxe/zw "I shit out" (LSJ s.v.; web address 2).
[2] The euphemism used in the gloss (
a)popate/w lit. "to step away", in LSJ. s.v. "retire to ease oneself"), indicates that
xe/zw was felt to be vulgar by the lexicographer. (The scholiast of
Aristophanes uses
a)pedh/mei, "travelled away" for this word.)
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