A verb. [sc. It means] you are doing something swinish and brutish.
And of swinish creatures; see above.[1]
Huêneis: rhêma. hueikon ti kai zôiôdes poieis. kai huênôn thremmatôn: zêtei anô.
The headword is second person singular, present indicative actiove, of the verb
ὑηνέω , presumably quoted from
Plato,
Theaetetus 166C (web address 1); the glossing is from the corresponding
scholia. See also
Timaeus, Lexicon Platonicum, and Etymologicum Magnum s.v.
Reportedly the verb also occurs as
συηνεῖν in
Pherekrates: see
sigma 1318.
[1] From
Plato,
Laws 819D (web address 2); see under
upsilon 77.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, cross-reference, status) on 19 July 2009@23:01:18.
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