Meaning you are saying [it so].
*kala\ dh\ patagei=s: a)nti\ tou= le/geis.
The headword phrase literally means "you are clashing/clattering very well." It appears in
Plato,
Euthydemus 293D (web address 1 below), and the entry derives from a gloss on the passage. Same or similar entries in other lexica, including
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon.
The idiom has been taken (in LSJ and elsewhere) to derive from a noisy sort of game,
platagh/ or
platagw/n (sic); see the LSJ entries on both of these in web address 2 and web address 3. However, note also
alpha 4121,
pi 1697 and
pi 1698 on a similarly-named percussion instrument.
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