LOGOI

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τολυπεύω

tolupeuo

wind off, into a clew, achieve, accomplish, work, finish building, endure

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What it meant

τολυπ-εύω · tolyp-euō — LSJ

wind off, into a clew

wind off carded wool into a clew for spinning, Ar. Lys. 587 (anap.).

II wind off, achieve, accomplish, work, finish building

metaph., wind off, achieve, accomplish, ἐγὼ δὲ δόλους τολυπεύω, of Penelopeʼs web (with a play on the literal sense), Od. 19.137; ἐπεὶ πόλεμον τολύπευσε 1.238, 4.490, al.; Θρῃξὶν πένθος τ. work them grief, E. Rh. 744 (anap.); δόμον τ. finish building it, AP 9.655; λίθον . . ἐκ θεμέθλων Arch.Anz. 31.149 (Nicopolis).

2 endure

endure, ἐς γῆρας τ. ἀργαλέους πολέμους Il. 14.86; ὁπόσα τολύπευσε σὺν αὐτῷ καὶ πάθεν ἄλγεα 24.7. (Poet. word, v.l. in J. AJ 17.1.2 for πολιτεύω.)

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