Περιαυτίζεται
is busy about himself, is self-aggrandizing
Translated by Ronald Allen18 Feb 2011Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] he thinks great things about himself; or he keeps on talking about the same thing.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Περιαυτίζεται· περὶ ἑαυτοῦ μέγα φρονεῖ· ἢ ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ λέξει ἐνδιατρίβει.
Betacode
*periauti/zetai: peri\ e(autou= me/ga fronei=: h)\ e)n au)th=| th=| le/cei e)ndiatri/bei.
Notes (1)
- The headword is the present indicative middle, third person singular, of the late and rare verb
periauti/zomai , I am busy about myself, brag; see generally LSJ s.v. It is evidently extracted from somewhere, perhaps Gregory of Nyssa, Letter 17.28 (the earliest attested instance). Other examples occur in e.g. the Histories of Theophylact Simocatta, and (favoured by Theodoridis) Cyril of Alexandria. - 1The headword is identically glossed in Photius' Lexicon (pi641 Theodoridis) and the Synagoge; cf. Etymologicum Gudianum pi462.2, ps.-Zonaras 1542.3, Lexica Segueriana 337.16, and Hesychius. For the first of these glossing phrases see already under pi 1073; for a similar verb, see pi 1075. ↩
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- Translated — Ronald Allen