Ἀποκναίειν
to wear out
Translated by Jennifer Benedict11 Aug 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to annoy, to wear thin. "Why don't you sleep? You're wearing me out with your walking around." Menander in Hated Man [sc. writes this].1
"For I do not wear out the man -- I mean Herakles of course -- with the magnitude of the virtue [of Herakleios] by putting him in second place, if we leave them side by side." Theophylactus Simocatta [sc. writes this].2
And elsewhere: "mankind in the time of Justinian were oppressed by the tax-collectors and worn out by the ever-accumulating interests on their debts, and they unwillingly lived their lives as if dying painful deaths."3
"For I do not wear out the man -- I mean Herakles of course -- with the magnitude of the virtue [of Herakleios] by putting him in second place, if we leave them side by side." Theophylactus Simocatta [sc. writes this].2
And elsewhere: "mankind in the time of Justinian were oppressed by the tax-collectors and worn out by the ever-accumulating interests on their debts, and they unwillingly lived their lives as if dying painful deaths."3