Ἐκτορμεῖν
to turn from the way
Translated by Catharine Roth20 Jan 2007Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to go out of the proper course.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἐκτορμεῖν· τὸ ἐκ τοῦ καθήκοντος δρόμου ἐκβαίνειν.
Betacode
*)ektormei=n: to\ e)k tou= kaqh/kontos dro/mou e)kbai/nein.
Notes
- Pausanias the Atticist fr. 310 (in Eustathius, Commentary on the Iliad 598.26); and similarly in Hesychius. (Unattested outside lexica and grammars.)
This verb is cognate with tau 792.