Ἐθώπευον

I was flattering, they were flattering

Translated by George Mallon3 Jul 2006Vetting: high6 revisions

5 words

[Meaning I/they] were fawning over.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐθώπευον· ἐκολάκευον.

Betacode

*)eqw/peuon: e)kola/keuon.

Same entry in ps.-Zonaras and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon. (Hesychius epsilon709 has a parallel one with third-person singular aorists.) The headword, which must be quoted from somewhere, is imperfect indicative active -- either first person singular or third person plural -- of the verb qwpeu/w (theta 433), 'flatter, fawn over, deceive by flattery' (LSJ entry at web address 1).
cf. under eta 159.