Ἀποθυννίζω
I write off
Translated by Jennifer Benedict14 Feb 2002Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] I dismiss and I underestimate.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀποθυννίζω· τὸ ἀποπέμπομαι καὶ παραλογίζομαι.
Betacode
*)apoqunni/zw: to\ a)pope/mpomai kai\ paralogi/zomai.
Notes
- Same entry in ps.-Zonaras and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon. The rare headword verb, literally meaning 'I reject as worthy of a (sc. mere) tuna-fish', is identified by Eustathius as a coinage of Lucian's; see Jupiter Tragoedus 25, with
a)potequ/nnistai (and the adjectivequnnw=des meaning stupid).
For tuna/tunny cf. theta 582, and more generally theta 580, theta 581, theta 582, theta 583, theta 584.