α3075Ἀπεσφακέλισεν
had a seizure, had frost-bitten limbs
The scholars [gloss it as] he/she/it was mortified, was convulsed. But it also means sank under a weight of misery; further, died suddenly. Aristophanes [sc. uses this word] to mean he/she/it was dragged away.
Ἀπεσφακέλισεν· οἱ μὲν γραμματικοὶ ἐσάπη, ἀπεσφενδόνησε. σημαίνει δὲ καὶ τὸ ἀπεκάκησεν· ἔτι τὸ ἐξαίφνης ἀπέθανεν. ὁ δὲ Ἀριστοφάνης ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀπεσπάσθη.