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κατασκελετ-εύω

kataskeleteuo

reduce to a skeleton

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Where it lives

Antidosis 1 · 0.57/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

κατασκελετ-εύω · kataskelet-euō — LSJ

reduce to a skeleton, to be wasted away, ‘desiccated,ʼ

reduce to a skeleton, ἑαυτούς Plu. Lib.educ. 2.7d; τὸ σῶμα Sch. Ar. Ra. 153:—Pass., to be wasted away, ‘desiccated,ʼ μὴ περιιδεῖν τὴν φύσιν -ευθεῖσαν Isoc. 15.268, cf. Ph. 1.198, al., Onos. 1.5 (Act.), D.L. 8.41: metaph., τὰ φυσικὰ ἔργα ταῖς τεχνολογίαις -ευόμενα Longin. 2.1.

In the wild

κατεσκελετευμένον · kateskeleteumenon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 8.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7328)
κατασκελετευθεῖσαν · kataskeleteutheisan Isocrates, Antidosis 268 (DIORISIS sentence 536)

Where it came from

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