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Headword:
*(rumbei=n
Adler number: rho,293
Translated headword: to cause to spin, to cause to whirl
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
r(umbei=n sc. is a variant of]
r(ombei=n. This [sc. comes] from the motion of the rhombos.[1]
Aelian [writes]: "and he used to fritter away the most precious things on a most unstinting prodigality."[2] ['He used to fritter away' comes] from the verb
r(umbonw= ["I swing round sc. and throw away"].
*(rumbei=n: r(ombei=n. tou=to de\ a)po\ th=s kinh/sews tou= r(o/mbou. *ai)liano/s: kai\ e)rumbo/na ta\ timiw/tata ei)s a)swti/an a)feidesta/thn. a)po\ tou= r(umbonw= r(h/matos.
Notes:
[1] Same material in
Timaeus,
Platonic Lexicon (an entry presumably generated by the appearance of this infinitive in
Plato,
Cratylus 426E). For
rhombein and the
rhombos see
rho 221,
rho 222,
rho 223.
[2]
Aelian fr. 149a Domingo-Forasté (146 Hercher); see already (as the headword phrase) at
epsilon 3105.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 23 September 2010@10:06:51.
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