LOGOI

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χολάω

cholao

to be full of black bile, to be melancholy mad

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Where it lives

What it meant

1. χολ-άω · chol-aō — LSJ

to be full of black bile, to be melancholy mad

to be full of black bile, to be melancholy mad, ἀνδράσιν πείθει χολῶσιν Ar. Nu. 833, cf. Epicr. 5.7, Strato 1.7, Men. Epit. 176.

II to be angry, rage

= χολόομαι, to be angry, rage, Antiph. 334, D.L. 9.66, v.l. in Mosch. 1.10, LXX 3 Ma. 3.1; Ep. part. χολόων Nic. Th. 140.

2. χωλ-άω · chōl-aō — LSJ

= χωλεύω I, dub. in Them. Or. 22.282b.

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