Ῥαχίζειν
to cleave
Translated by Catharine Roth8 Sep 2010Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
To brag.1 Also [sc. attested is the related noun] r(axisth/s ["one who cuts through the spine"], [meaning] a braggart. Theopompus in Pamphile [writes]: "Demophon, of all these things the braggart."2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ῥαχίζειν· τὸ ἀλαζονεύεσθαι. καὶ ῥαχιστής, ὁ ἀλαζών. Θεόπομπος Παμφίλῃ· τούτων ἁπάντων ὁ ῥαχιστὴς Δημοφῶν.
Betacode
*(raxi/zein: to\ a)lazoneu/esqai. kai\ r(axisth/s, o( a)lazw/n. *qeo/pompos *pamfi/lh|: tou/twn a(pa/ntwn o( r(axisth\s *dhmofw=n.
Notes (2)
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- ρ61Ῥαχίζεινto cut through the spineThe [verb that means] to separate the back and the parts of the chine, or to cleave; as Euripides says.
- ρ63Ῥαχίζωνcleaving, cutting through the spine[Meaning he] slaughtering, cutting through. Sophocles [writes]: "[he] cleaving in a circle." Meaning slaughtering around the place of the fold. [sc. The term is used] because the first and great[est] cut occurs along…
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