Ληκυΐζειν
to oil-flask-speak
Translated by David Whitehead25 Jan 2009Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to shout and make a sound more loudly.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ληκυΐζειν· τὸ μεῖζον βοᾶν καὶ ψοφεῖν.
Betacode
*lhkui/+zein: to\ mei=zon boa=n kai\ yofei=n.
Notes
- From the scholia to Aristophanes, Acharnians 589 -- but both here and already under kappa 2018, the Suda presents as
lhkui/zein what should actually belhkuqi/zein (cognate with lekythos: lambda 438, lambda 439).
Linked from2 entries
- κ2018Κομπολακύθουbraggart's, of a braggart[Meaning] of an idle boaster and vainglorious [man]. The word is altered and transformed. For the flask [lhku/qion] came from the [verb] lakei=n ["to crackle"]. For lhkui+/zein [means] to shout and make a sound more…
- λ437Ληκυθιστήςhollow-voiced declaimer[Meaning] a man with a small voice. Thus Sophocles [uses the word]. Also [sc. attested is the related noun] lhkuqismo/s ["hollow speaking"]. "To publish with well-twisted and modulated [speech] the hollow declamation of…
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Revision history3 revisions · last 18 Apr 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- x-refs — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead