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πᾰλίμ-φημος

palimphemos

back-speaking, recanting

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Where it lives

  • Ion 1 · 1.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

back-speaking, recanting, of recantation

back-speaking, recanting, π. ἀοιδά, = παλινῳδία, a song of recantation, reproaching the male sex instead of the female, E. Ion 1096 (lyr.), cf. Med. 415 sq.

II

= κακόφημος, δύσφημος, λαβροσύναι Tryph. 423, cf. Hsch.; π. εὐχαί Ph. 2.301; ὄναρ ib. 55.

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Where it came from

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