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Headword:
Ψήχειν
Adler number: psi,87
Translated headword: to rub down, to curry
Vetting Status: low
Translation: To wipe off, to rub, to scrape.[1]
"The Moors at once curried the horses. Some sharpened spears, others [sharpened] swords."[2]
And in the Epigrams: "the long time wears down even stone, nor does it spare the iron, but destroys everything with one reaping-hook."[3]
Greek Original:Ψήχειν: καταμάσσειν, τρίβειν, ξύειν. οἱ δὲ Μαυρούσιοι παραυτίκα τοὺς ἵππους ἔψηχον: οἱ δὲ λόγχας, οἱ δὲ ξίφη ἠκόνων. καὶ ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι: ψήχει καὶ πέτρην ὁ πολὺς χρόνος, οὐδὲ σιδήρου φείδεται, ἀλλὰ μιῇ πάντ' ὀλέκει δρεπάνῃ.
Notes:
[1] cf. generally
ψήκτρα ("curry-comb") at
psi 66. The present headword is similarly glossed in other lexica, so evidently quoted from somewhere (perhaps
Xenophon,
Hipparchicus 1.16).
[2] Quoted in part already at
epsilon 4062.
[3]
Greek Anthology 7.225.1-2.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 30 December 2005@23:34:31.
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