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Headword:
*pai/ein
Adler number: pi,874
Translated headword: to beat
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Thus they call doing anything whatsoever intensely.[1]
Aristophanes in
Acharnians [writes]: "and the young man quickly beats [the old man] with terse words."[2]
*pai/ein: ou(/tw le/gousi to\ pa=n o(tiou=n sunto/nws poiei=n. *)aristofa/nhs *)axarneu=sin: o( de\ neani/as e)s ta/xos pai/ei stroggu/lois toi=s r(h/masi.
Notes:
The headword is the present active infinitive of the verb
pai/w (
I strike, I smite); cf.
pi 873,
pi 880,
pi 893,
pi 894, and LSJ s.v. In the following quotation it appears in the present indicative active, third person singular.
[1] From the
scholia to the passage about to be quoted.
[2] The quotation (again at
sigma 1209) is taken from the Chorus Leader's speech in protest at an old man's courtroom plight:
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 685-6 (web address 1).
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; law
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 10 June 2008@19:56:12.
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