LOGOI

The corpus record

ὡρᾱκιάω

orakiao

faint, swoon away

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What it meant — LSJ

faint, swoon away

faint, swoon away, Ar. Ra. 481, Pax 702, and in later Prose, as Phld. Acad.Ind. p.50M., Lib. Decl. 26.33, 31.34, Them. Or. 26.314b.—Moer. p.425P. writes it with the aspir., as Att. for λιποψυχέω. Others wrote it ὠρακιάω as if for ὠχριάω, and this sense is given to the word by Aristaenet. 1.10, Procop. Arc. 10, Sch. Ar. Pax l.c.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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