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Headword:
*piezo/menos
Adler number: pi,1563
Translated headword: oppressed
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] being weighed down, being overcome.[1]
Also[2] ["is oppressing"] meaning is harming.
Aristophanes [writes]: "[the fire] is oppressing Stilbides". Stilbides [was] an excellent and well-respected seer.[3]
*piezo/menos: barou/menos, damazo/menos. kai\ a)nti\ tou= lupei=. *)aristofa/nhs: to\n *stilbi/dhn pie/zei. o( de\ *stilbi/dhs ma/ntis a)/ristos kai\ eu)do/kimos.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at
Photius pi872 Theodoridis. The headword is present middle/passive participle, masculine nominative singular, of
pie/zw. It must be quoted from somewhere: Theodoridis mentions a string of possibilities begininng with two in
Xenophon (
Anabasis 1.1.10,
Cyropaedia 7.2.20); one could add
Thucydides 2.89.8.
[2] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Peace 1032 (web address 1), about to be quoted; cf.
sigma 1108.
[3] c.470-412 BCE. His main claim to fame was as religious adviser to
Nikias (
Plutarch,
Nikias 23.5, web address 2). See also
Eupolis fr. 211 Kock, now 225 K.-A.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 17 December 2002@07:24:53.
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