cf.
Photius, Lexicon beta16; Adler also cites
Lexicon Ambrosianum 234.
[1] In Greek, the difference is between the active imperative and, here, the middle imperative. This is one of only a very few attestations of a middle form of this verb, apart from future tense forms, and the only one from prior to the common era.
[2]
Cratinus fr. 391 Kock (421 Kassel-Austin). Kock suggests this word was spoken by a character being lampooned for solecisms (in this instance, using a middle form where an active form is appropriate), like Datis in
Aristophanes,
Peace 289 ff. (web address 1); cf.
delta 89.
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