Ἀναδεύειν
to soak up
Translated by Jennifer Benedict29 Mar 2001Vetting: high8 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to mix.1
Also [sc. attested is]a)nadeu/sei ["he/she/it will soak up"],2 [meaning] will mix, will knead in.
Aelian [writes]: "so if, having burned the books of Epicurus, he will soak up the dust of the atheists and the impious and the marks of the effeminate with liquid wax, and plaster over his belly and whole chest and bind it with fillets."3
Also [sc. attested is]
Aelian [writes]: "so if, having burned the books of Epicurus, he will soak up the dust of the atheists and the impious and the marks of the effeminate with liquid wax, and plaster over his belly and whole chest and bind it with fillets."3