μ1251Μορμολύττεται
scares, spooks
[Used] with an accusative. [Meaning he/she/it] frightens. "You are scared/spooked by a little wine-skin" [sc. is a proverb] in reference to fear insignificant [lit. "empty"] things: since a wine-skin [is] empty. "They…
Μορμολύττεται· αἰτιατικῇ. φοβεῖ. Ἀσκίῳ μορμολύττεις, ἐπὶ τῶν τὰ κενὰ δεδοικότων· ἐπεὶ κενὸς ὁ ἀσκός. ἐμορμολύξαντο σφᾶς, ὡς ἀνύποιστόν τι πλῆθος ἔπεισι κατ' αὐτῶν. τουτέστιν…
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