Ἀκέσασθαι καὶ Ἀκέσαι

Notes (2)

1. In the Greek there are twin headwords, respectively aorist middle infinitive and aorist active infinitive of a)ke/omai; see further below. Same or similar entry elsewhere; see the references at Photius alpha729 Theodoridis; also Kassel-Austin, PCG II p.320 (s.v. Antiphanes).
1. 1For this equivalence, impossible to reflect in translation, cf. also alpha 842, alpha 846, alpha 848, alpha 851, eta 165. (Another one in alpha 845 etc.) ↩
2. 2For 'needlewoman' see eta 432 -- but this assertion, repeated there, makes little sense. Eustathius (1647.56) vigorously denies the relationship between the word for stitching and the word akestria for 'healer', and this entry perhaps reflects a confused correction of an earlier one.
   The active infinitive is anomalous, as the active form of this verb occurs only once, apparently a learned back-formation of Apollonius Rhodius. See alpha 856 for a fuller discussion of this verb.