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Headword:
*paratei=nai
Adler number: pi,463
Translated headword: to stretch, to flatten, to floor
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to overturn and [sc. so] to destroy. [The] Comic poet[1] [sc. applies the word] to Euboia: "I know [sc. where Euboia is]; for it was stretched by us and Perikles."[2]
Greek Original:*paratei=nai: to\ e)pitre/yai, kai\ a)pole/sai. *kwmiko\s e)pi\ *eu)boi/as: oi)=d': u(po\ ga\r h(mw=n pareta/qh kai\ *perikle/ous.
Notes:
Also in
Photius,
Lexicon pi322, where Theodoridis follows Cobet in thinking that the first glossing infinitive should be (as in Suda mss GM)
e)pitri=yai.
[1] i.e.
Aristophanes: see next note (and cf. e.g.
alpha 4196 =
sigma 525).
[2]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 213 (web address 1), referring to the reconquest of the rebellious island of Euboia in 446 BCE by Athenian troops under the command of Pericles (
Thucydides 1.114; web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; geography; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 28 June 2001@04:37:26.
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