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καθᾰμαξεύω

kathamaxeuo

wear with wheels

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What it meant

καθᾰμαξεύω · kathamaxeuō — LSJ

wear with wheels, crush, common, hackneyed, stale, trite, in a trite way

wear with wheels: metaph., ἕτεροι κατημάξευσαν (sic) τάσδε τὰς τρίβους Nech. ap. Vett.Val. 354.2; crush, καθημάξευσε ταῖς συμφοραῖς Eun. Hist. p.240D.: elsewh. in pf. part. Pass., καθημαξευμένος, η, ον, metaph., γύναιον κ. ὑπὸ παντὸς τοῦ προσιόντος, of a common prostitute, Ael. Fr. 123: but almost always written κατημ-, hackneyed, stale, trite, ἀντιλογίαι D.H. 10.41, cf. Th. 11.2; ἔθη κ. Ph. 1.513; πρόχειρον καὶ κ. ib. 426; τὰ κοινὰ καὶ κ. Ath. 15.677a, cf. Artem. 1.31 (in marg.), Simp. in Cat.

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