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Headword:
*skombri/sai
Adler number: sigma,652
Translated headword: to foot-slap
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In Juba, in [book] 2 [of] On the Corruption of Language it is explained as a sort of outrageous prank, and of someone striking across the belly with the flat of his foot so as to produce a noise.[1]
Greek Original:*skombri/sai: para\ *)io/ba| e)n b# fqora=s le/cews paidia=s a)selgou=s ei)=dos a)podi/dotai, kai\ kata\ to\ h)=tron platei= tw=| podi\ plh/ssontos, w(s yo/fon e)rga/sasqai.
Notes:
=
Photius sigma359 (where however Theodoridis punctuates before, not after,
a)podi/dotai); cf.
Hesychius sigma1082, rho38. The headword is the aorist active infinitive of the verb
skombri/zw, which is defined differently in
sigma 651. No form of this verb appears outside lexicography.
[1] FGrH [Juba II:
iota 399] 275 F22.
Translated by: William Hutton on 27 February 2014@10:02:58.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (another x-ref; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status) on 27 February 2014@10:22:19.
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