Meaning having fainted; Cratinus is being slandered as a drunkard; or having turned pale; or having been made dizzy by a fainting-fit, with pallor resulting; people fainting [are] like this, for the first thing which changes in them is their colour. Aristophanes [writes]: "for he could not bear to see a jar full of wine smashed". They say w(rakia/sai ["to swoon"] [when they mean] to turn pale [w)xria/sai] through fear, with the heart under stress; this happens to many; [the term comes] from maltreating [ai)ki/zesqai] the beauty [w(/ra], that is the shape.
Or I swoon, I am pale, I am concerned; for w(/ra [is] concern.[1] Hesiod [writes]: "for scant care has he with quarrels".[2] [Meaning] someone is released from concern.
For the verb [is] w)raki/zw.