1. σολοικίζω · soloikizō — Beekes
The corpus record
σολοικ-ίζω
soloikizo
to speak (write, think) with flaws, unskillfully
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Where it lives
- De Memoria et Reminiscentia 1 · 4.16/10k
- Against Stephanus 1 1 · 1.77/10k
- Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k
- Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k
- Histories 1 · 0.05/10k
What it meant
2. σολοικίζω · soloikizō — Chantraine
3. σολοικίζω · soloikizō — Chantraine
4. σολοικίζω · soloikizō — Chantraine
5. σολοικίζω · soloikizō — Frisk
6. σολοικ-ίζω · soloik-izō — LSJ
speak or write incorrectly, commit a solecism, φωνῇ Σκυθικῇ σ. speak bad Scythian, Hdt. 4.117; σ. τῇ φωνῇ D. 45.30, cf. Arist. SE 173b20, Rh. 1407b18; defined as τῇ λέξει βαρβαρίζειν, Id. SE 165b20; coupled with βαρβαρίζειν, Phld. Rh. 1.154 S., Plu. Adul. 2.59f.
to be guilty of an absurdity, σ. ἐν δόξαις Epicur. Nat. 14.9, cf. 10; περὶ σολοικιζόντων λόγων, title of treatise by Chrysippus, Stoic. 2.6.
err against good manners or propriety in any way (in speech, thought, dress, eating, etc.), behave boorishly, Zeno Stoic. 1.23; περί τι Plu. Aud. 2.45e; τῇ χειρί Philostr. VS 1.25.9.
In the wild
- σολοικίζομεν · soloikizomen Aristotle, De Memoria et Reminiscentia (DIORISIS sentence 56)
- σολοικίζειν · soloikizein Aristotle, Rhetoric 3
- σολοικίζει · soloikizei Demosthenes, Against Stephanus 1 30 (DIORISIS sentence 99)
- σολοικίζειν · soloikizein Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.2 (DIORISIS sentence 379)
- σολοικιζόντων · soloikizontōn Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.7 (DIORISIS sentence 6915)
- ἐσολοίκιζεν · esoloikizen Epictetus, Discourses 3.9 (DIORISIS sentence 4301)
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