rub dry with oil
rub dry with oil, of wrestlers, Lex Solonis ap. Plu. Sol. 1 (cf. Aeschin. 1.138), S. Fr. 494, Plu. Symp. 2.152d, Philostr. Gym. 58, D.C. 77.11 ; opp. χυτλοῦσθαι, Gal. 11.532.
The corpus record
ξηρ-ᾰλοιφέω
xeraloipheo
rub dry with oil
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