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Headword:
*(raxi/zwn
Adler number: rho,63
Translated headword: cleaving, cutting through the spine
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he] slaughtering, cutting through.[1]
Sophocles [writes]: "[he] cleaving in a circle." Meaning slaughtering around the place of the fold. [sc. The term is used] because the first and great[est] cut occurs along the spine.[2] By a metaphor we also call those who accomplish great things
r(axistai/ ["cleavers"].[3]
*(raxi/zwn: sfa/zwn, diako/ptwn. *sofoklh=s: ku/klw| r(axi/zwn. a)nti\ tou= kata\ to/pon th=s e)pau/lews sfa/zwn. dia\ to\ th\n prw/thn kai\ mega/lhn diakoph\n kata\ th\n r(a/xin gi/nesqai. e)k metafora=s de\ kai\ tou\s mega/la katorqou=ntas r(axista/s famen.
Notes:
An expanded version of
Photius rho57 Theodoridis.
[1] The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is present participle of
r(axi/zw (cf.
rho 61,
rho 62, and more broadly
rho 65), masculine nominative singular.
[2]
Sophocles,
Ajax 56 (web address 1), with scholion; cf.
Hesychius s.v.
[3] cf.
rho 62 for another sense of
r(axisth/s.
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; imagery; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 9 September 2010@20:17:13.
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