Συκάζειν

to gather figs

Translated by Catharine Roth22 May 2014Vetting: high2 revisions

2 notes · 16 words

This is what the ancients used to call acting insolently.¹
See under "you are fig-squeezing" [a)posuka/zeis].²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Συκάζειν· οὕτω τὸ ἐπηρεάζειν ἔλεγον οἱ παλαιοί. ζήτει ἐν τῷ ἀποσυκάζεις.

Betacode

*suka/zein: ou(/tw to\ e)phrea/zein e)/legon oi( palaioi/. zh/tei e)n tw=| a)posuka/zeis.

Entry lacking, Adler reports, in ms V (and added in the margin of M).
1Artemidorus 1.73. (Contrast e.g. Hesychius sigma2220 and Photius, Lexicon sigma685 Theodoridis.) ↩
2alpha 3567. ↩

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