Κυβηλίσαι
to cleave, strike with a cleaver
Translated by David Whitehead27 Jun 2004Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κυβηλίσαι· πελεκῆσαι. κύβηλις γὰρ ὁ πέλεκυς. καὶ Ἀγερσικύβηλις, ὁ θύτης. Κρατῖνος Δραπέτισιν ἐπὶ Λάμπωνος εἶπε τὸν ἀγύρτην καὶ κυβηλιστήν.
Betacode
*kubhli/sai: pelekh=sai. ku/bhlis ga\r o( pe/lekus. kai\ *)agersiku/bhlis, o( qu/ths. *krati=nos *drape/tisin e)pi\ *la/mpwnos ei)=pe to\n a)gu/rthn kai\ kubhlisth/n.
Notes (3)
- 1Likewise or similarly in other lexica; see the references at Photius kappa1148 Theodoridis. The headword (which must be quoted from somewhere but is not independently attested) is the aorist active infinitive of
kubhli/zw . ↩ - 2Attested only in lexicography. ↩
- 3Cratinus fr. 62 Kock, now 66 K.-A. For Lampon cf. theta 418, lambda 93. ↩
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