Ῥέξαι

to do

Translated by Catharine Roth3 Feb 2010Vetting: high3 revisions

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[Meaning] to make [something], to accomplish [something]; but Athenians [use the word to mean] to sacrifice; in Epicharmus [it means] to harm.¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ῥέξαι· ποιῆσαι, πρᾶξαι· Ἀθηναῖοι δὲ θῦσαι· παρὰ Ἐπιχάρμῳ τὸ βλάψαι.

Betacode

*(re/cai: poih=sai, pra=cai: *)aqhnai=oi de\ qu=sai: para\ *)epixa/rmw| to\ bla/yai.

The headword is the aorist active infinitive of r(e/zw. Same or similar glossing in other lexica (references at Photius rho82 Theodoridis), and in scholia on Homer, Iliad 1.444 and Odyssey 3.349. See also rho 90, rho 91.
1Epicharmus fr. 107 Kaibel (106 K.-A.). ↩

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