ply the dashing oar
ply the dashing oar, Cratin. 345, Hermipp. 54; also of the ship, ἐκ πιτύλων ῥ. Ar. Fr. 84.
2 make a guttling noise
of pigs eating, make a guttling noise, Id. Ach. 807; cf. ῥόθιος I.2.
The corpus record
ῥοθ-ιάζω
rothiazo
ply the dashing oar
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What it meant — LSJ
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.