strike the sea with the oar, make a splash
strike the sea with the oar, make a splash, metaph. in Ar. Eq. 830, Lib. Decl. 26.18.
The corpus record
θᾰλασσο-κοπέω
thalassokopeo
strike the sea with the oar, make a splash
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
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