Ξηραλοιφεῖν

to dry-anoint

Translated by James L. P. Butrica ✝15 Feb 2000Vetting: high4 revisions

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Aeschines [in the speech] Against Timarchus [uses the word].¹ To dry-anoint is what they used to call anointing oneself without bath-water. But perhaps the so-called 'dry rubbing' by trainers was also so called.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ξηραλοιφεῖν· Αἰσχίνης κατὰ Τιμάρχου. ξηραλοιφεῖν ἔλεγον τὸ χωρὶς λουτρῶν ἀλείφεσθαι. μήποτε δὲ καὶ τὸ ὑπὸ τῶν ἀλειπτῶν λεγόμενον ξηροτρίβεσθαι οὕτως ἐλέγετο.

Betacode

*chraloifei=n: *ai)sxi/nhs kata\ *tima/rxou. chraloifei=n e)/legon to\ xwri\s loutrw=n a)lei/fesqai. mh/pote de\ kai\ to\ u(po\ tw=n a)leiptw=n lego/menon chrotri/besqai ou(/tws e)le/geto.

Notes (1)

Abbreviated from Harpokration s.v. See also xi 62.
1Aeschines 1.138. He quotes there a law (attributed to Solon in Plutarch, Solon 1) restricting exercise in the wrestling-schools, and all that went with it, to free men rather than slaves. ↩

References

Aeschines, Against Timarchos, translated with introduction and commentary by Nick Fisher (Oxford 2001) 283-4

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ξ59Ξεῖνοιguest-friends ξ60Ξηνόςblock ξ61Ξηραλοιφεῖνto dry-anoint ξ62Ξηραλοιφίαdry-anointing ξ63ΞηραίνωI dry, I parch

Revision history4 revisions · last 30 Aug 2007

30 Aug 2007cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
30 Aug 2007x-ref; added bibliography; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
10 Feb 2003added keyword; restorative and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
21 Sep 2000modified translation; added note and keywords — David Whitehead
15 Feb 2000Translated — James L. P. Butrica ✝

Translation

Greek original · Adler’s text

Notes (1)

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