throwing away oneʼs arms
throwing away oneʼs arms, ἄτη ῥ., of a panic flight, A. Th. 315.
The corpus record
ῥίψ-οπλος
ripsoplos
throwing away oneʼs arms
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Where it lives
- Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ῥίψοπλον · rhipsoplon Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 312–317
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.