Ἀκροποδιτί

on tip-toe

Translated by Jennifer Benedict5 Mar 2000Vetting: high4 revisions

7 words

[Meaning] on the tips of the feet.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀκροποδιτί· ἄκροις ποσίν.

Betacode

*)akropoditi/: a)/krois posi/n.

Same entry in ps.-Zonaras, and noted also by ps.-Herodian. This precise form of the adverb -- a single word in the Greek - is otherwise unattested, but a)kropodhti/ oocurs 4 times in Lucian (scholia to whom provide the present gloss).