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Headword:
*perixai/nw
Adler number: pi,1349
Translated headword: I close my jaws round, I take entirely into my mouth
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Used] with an accusative.
Dogs do something of the kind, when they take into their mouths stones that are thrown at them.[1]
Greek Original:*perixai/nw: ai)tiatikh=|. oi(=o/n ti poiou=sin oi( ku/nes, tou\s li/qous, oi(=s ba/llontai, perixai/nontes.
Notes:
The headword
perixai/nw is a post-classical variant of
perixa/skw.
[1] Perhaps a faint reflection, as Jonathan Toup (1713-1785) suggested, of
Plato,
Republic 469D-E (dogs -- or more exactly bitches -- snarl at stones thrown at them, while keeping clear of the throwers: web address 1).
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Keywords: daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; philosophy; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 11 December 2002@07:38:55.
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