β208Βδύλλετε
you are in deadly fear of
[Meaning] you disparage, you are seized with fear, and you tremble. Aristophanes [writes]: "why are you in deadly fear of us? Surely we do not seem to be many? But this is not even one ten-thousandth of us."
Βδύλλετε· εὐτελίζετε, φοβεῖσθε, καὶ τρέμετε. Ἀριστοφάνης· τί βδύλλεσθ' ἡμᾶς; οὔτι που πολλαὶ δοκοῦμεν εἶναι; καὶ μὴν μέρος γ' ἡμῶν οὔπω τὸ μυριοστόν.
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