[Meaning] to spend time on, to get to.
Aristophanes [writes]: "you are ignorant and unaccomplished, and you haven't even trodden Aesop."[1] In reference to know-nothings.
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Mantissa Proverbiorum 2.54. Derived from commentary on
Aristophanes (see n. 1 below, and
alpha 1470, where the same quotation is given and explained in terms that clearly form the basis of the current entry).
The headword is the aorist active infinitive of
pate/w (cf.
pi 782), while the quotation contains a perfect indicative form of the same verb.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Birds 471. Here 'trodden' means 'familiarised (yourself) with'; the chorus-leader's ignorance of Aesop (
alphaiota 334,
alphaiota 335), as the passage goes on to explain, consists particularly in not knowing his story about the lark being the earliest of all living creatures.
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