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ψελλίζω

psellizo

falter in speech, speak inarticulately

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Where it lives

  • Gorgias 3 · 1.14/10k
  • Isaias 2 · 0.76/10k
  • Metaphysics 2 · 0.25/10k

What it meant

ψελλίζω · psellizō — LSJ

falter in speech, speak inarticulately, speak indistinctly, hesitate

falter in speech, speak inarticulately, like a child, ψ. καὶ τραυλίζουσι Arist. HA 536b8:—so in Med., Pl. Grg. 485b, 485c; ψελλίζονται καὶ τραυλίζουσι (-ονται Bonitz), τοῦτο δʼ ἐστὶν ἔνδεια τῶν γραμμάτων Arist. PA 660a26; ψελλιζόμενος τὴν Ἑλλάδα φωνήν Hld. 8.15: metaph., of Empedocles and the early philosophers, speak indistinctly, ἃ ψελλίζεται λέγων Ἐμπεδοκλῆς Arist. Metaph. 985a5; ψελλιζομένῃ ἔοικεν ἡ πρώτη φιλοσοφία περὶ πάντων ib. 993a15; of metals, hesitate to alloy, Id. GC 328b9:—Act. is l

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metaph., ψελλιζόμενος ἐς τὰ πολεμικά, of a boy soldier, Philostr. Her. 19.2.

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