grow weary with carding wool, work hard, grow weary
grow weary with carding wool : hence, generally, work hard, grow weary, ξανῆσαι S. Fr. 498 ; νεύρων ξανάᾳ κεχαλασμένα δεσμά Nic. Th. 383.
The corpus record
ξᾰνάω
xanao
grow weary with carding wool
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Where it lives
- Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ἐξανήσει · exanēsei Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis *mene/laos.370 (DIORISIS sentence 159)
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.