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Headword:
*te/mnein
Adler number: tau,299
Translated headword: to cut
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to persuade, to honor, to consider.[1]
*te/mnein and u(pote/mnein ["to cut underneath"] are different: for te/mnein is to make a vertical cut, but u(pote/mnein [is to make] an oblique [cut], so that [the result] appears thick. For the unevenness of the cut effects the appearance of thickness: this is what tanners do.[2]
Greek Original:*te/mnein: pei/qein, tima=n, h(gei=sqai. *te/mnein kai\ u(pote/mnein diafe/rei: te/mnein me\n ga/r e)sti to\ o)rqh\n poiei=sqai th\n tomh/n, u(pote/mnein de\ to\ locw/dh, i(/na paxe/a fai/nhtai. to\ ga\r a)nw/malon th=s tomh=s paxu/thtos do/can e)rga/zetai: o(/per poiou=sin oi( bursode/yai.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in the
Synagoge (tau89) and
Photius'
Lexicon (tau145 Theodoridis); similarly in
Hesychius (tau461) and a scholion on
Plato,
Epistles 8.353E, which has the sentence
tou/twn dh\ xrh\ pa/sh| proqumi/a| pa/ntas tou\s *(/ellhnas te/mnein fa/rmakon "Against this [sc. the Greek language dying out in
Sicily] all the Greeks must with all zeal cut a drug [i.e. provide a remedy]." See also
tau 301.
[2] From a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Knights 291; cf.
upsilon 609.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 December 2013@22:34:06.
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