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Headword:
Καθιππάζεσθαι
Adler number: kappa,112
Translated headword: to trample underfoot
Vetting Status: low
Translation: To harry, to dispute, to contend with. "
Bion the sophist was a complicated man, one who had given much ammunition to those wishing to trample philosophy underfoot".[1]
Καθιππάζεσθαι: συνελαύνειν, ἐρίζειν, συντρέχειν. ὁ δὲ Βίων ὁ σοφιστὴς ποικίλος ἦν, πλείστας ἀφορμὰς δεδωκὼς τοῖς βουλομένοις καθιππάζεσθαι φιλοσοφίας.
Notes:
[1]
Diogenes Laertius 4.47. For
Bion of Borysthenes cf.
alpha 249,
sigma 1377, and see generally OCD(3) p.243, s.v. "
Bion(1)".
See LSJ s.v. for both the original (and ongoing) equestrian sense of this verb and its figurative use, as here, first attested in tragedy.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 16 July 2001@04:04:19.
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