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Headword: *kaqei=nai
Adler number: kappa,64
Translated headword: to let grow
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to let loose downwards.[1]
"They say that Antisthenes was the first to let his beard grow and to use a pouch and staff".[2]
Greek Original:
*kaqei=nai: e)pi\ to\ ka/tw a)polu=sai. *)antisqe/nhn fasi\ prw=ton pw/gwna kaqei=nai kai\ ba/ktrw| kai\ ph/ra| xrh/sasqai.
Notes:
[1] Aorist active infinitive of kaqi/hmi. Same glossing in other lexica.
[2] A clumsy summary of Diogenes Laertius 6.13; the claim about beard-growing actually concerns not Antisthenes (alpha 2723) but another philosopher, Diodoros of Aspendos. For the idiom pw/gwna kaqei=nai see already Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 99-100, and generally LSJ s.v. kaqi/hmi.
Keywords: biography; chronology; clothing; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; philosophy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 16 July 2001@03:28:37.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth on 21 August 2003@18:00:52.
David Whitehead (added x-ref and keyword; cosmetics) on 22 August 2003@02:54:01.
David Whitehead on 21 January 2013@06:59:02.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 11 March 2019@22:57:27.
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