The corpus record

ῥιπτάζω

riptazo

throw to and fro, toss about

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Where it lives

Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

throw to and fro, toss about, moved, up and down, toss about

throw to and fro, toss about, ῥιπτάζων κατὰ δῶμα θεούς Il. 14.257; ὀφρύσι ῥιπτάζεσκε moved the eyebrows up and down, h.Merc. 279:—Pass., toss about, esp. in bed, Hp. Epid. 4.31 (so ῥιπτάζειν ἑαυτόν Morb. 2.69; and ῥιπτάζειν alone, Acut. (Sp.) 18); πρᾶγμα πολλαῖσι . . ἀγρυπνίαισιν ἐρριπτασμένον Ar. Lys. 27; ὕφη γυναικῶν . . ἐρριπτάζετο S. Fr. 210 iii 12; τῇ γνώμῃ πολλὰ ῥιπτασθεὶς ἐπʼ ἀμφότερα Plu. Cic. 37; ῥιπτάσαι περιδεῶς BCH 48.518 (Palestine).

Pass. also, = ῥίπτομαι, AP 5.164 (Mel.).

In the wild

ῥιπτάζων · rhiptazōn Iliad 14.257
ῥιπτάζεσθαι · rhiptazesthai Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 5.5.1 (DIORISIS sentence 551)

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