Πάλλει

brandishes

Translated by Catharine Roth10 Mar 2011Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 19 words

[Meaning he/she/it] moves, shakes, twitches.¹
"And at this the barbarian collected his spirit and ceased his shaking with fear."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πάλλει· κινεῖ, σείεται, ἅλλεται. καὶ ἐπὶ τῷδε τὸν θυμὸν συνελέξατο ὁ βάρβαρος καὶ τῷ πάλλεσθαι ὑπὸ τῷ τρόμῳ ἔληξε.

Betacode

*pa/llei: kinei=, sei/etai, a(/lletai. kai\ e)pi\ tw=|de to\n qumo\n sunele/cato o( ba/rbaros kai\ tw=| pa/llesqai u(po\ tw=| tro/mw| e)/lhce.

1Same or similar glosses in other lexica (references at Photius pi105 Theodoridis), and in a scholion on Homer, Iliad 5.304 (where pa/lle occurs); cf. generally pi 115. The headword is evidently quoted from somewhere -- perhaps Aristophanes, Acharnians 965 (where Lamachus does this with his helmet). ↩
2Quotation (transmitted, according to Adler, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable; again at sigma 1486. ↩

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