[Meaning] to blaspheme. As in Acharnians: "he was using false words against me".
*kataglwtti/zein: to\ blasfhmei=n. w(s e)n *)axarneu=si: yeudh= kataglw/ttize/ mou.
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The headword verb, its perfect middle or passive participle and its derivatives are used in Greek with any of the many possible meanings of the root for 'tongue' (LSJ entry at web address 1; cf.
kappa 504,
kappa 912).
In the passage quoted here, from
Aristophanes' play (380), Dicaeopolis complains of the lies told in the lawcourts and the verb (here mistakenly read without the augment, for it is the imperfect active) probably also has overtones of sinking me "down" with lies and lashing me with the tongue.
The religious meaning given here seems rarer at the time of Suda than 'to compose in elaborate language' (Lampe, Lexicon).
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