Τετραποδητί

on all fours

Translated by David Whitehead13 May 2004Vetting: high4 revisions

1 note · 18 words

[Meaning] on feet and hands. "But they on all fours somehow clung on and forced [their way up]."¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τετραποδητί· ποσὶ καὶ χερσίν. οἱ δὲ τετραποδητὶ τρόπον τινὰ προσπλεξάμενοι ἐβιάζοντο.

Betacode

*tetrapodhti/: posi\ kai\ xersi/n. oi( de\ tetrapodhti\ tro/pon tina\ prospleca/menoi e)bia/zonto.

Notes (1)

The rare headword adverb (a single word in the Greek) is presumably extracted from the quotation. (There is another instance in Lucian.)
cf. generally tau 399.
1An approximation of Polybius 5.60.7 (of an assault on a wall); see web address 1. ↩

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from1 entry

τ399Τετραποδηδόνfour-footedly, on all foursThus the Skiapodes in Libya walked, as they had flat feet and raised one of their feet to shade the rest of their body as shelter from the blazing heat which is common in their land.

Neighbouring entries

τ398Τετρανθέντα[having been] perforated τ399Τετραποδηδόνfour-footedly, on all fours τ400Τετραποδητίon all fours τ401Τετραπτερυλλίδωνof four-winged τ402Τετραραῖαtetraraia

Revision history4 revisions · last 16 Jul 2022

16 Jul 2022tweaked link — Catharine Roth
9 Jan 2014Revised — David Whitehead
3 Oct 2004x-ref — David Whitehead
2 Oct 2004added link, set status — Catharine Roth
13 May 2004Translated — David Whitehead