The corpus record

βληστρ-ίζω

blestrizo

toss about

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Where it lives

Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

βληστρ-ίζω · blēstr-izō — LSJ

toss about

toss about, ἑαυτὸν β., as a sick person on his bed, Hp. Morb. 3.7; βληστρίζοντες ἐμὴν φροντίδʼ ἀνʼ Ἑλλάδα γῆν Xenoph. 8.2: metaph., ἐμαυτὸν πόλιν ἐκ πόλεως φέρων ἐβλήστριζον Id. 45:—Pass., = βληστρίζειν ἑαυτόν, Aret. CA 1.1.

In the wild

βληστρίζοντες · blēstrizontes Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.2 (DIORISIS sentence 7801)

Where it came from

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