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καταγλωττ-ίζω ,
A.bill, kiss wantonly by joining mouths and tongues, Com.Adesp.882: hence, μέλος κατεγλωττισμένον wanton, lascivious song, Ar.Th.131.
II. use the tongue against another, “ψευδῆ κ. τινός” Id.Ach.380.
III. κ. τινά talk one down, hence in Pass., “πόλιν ὑπὸ σοῦ κατεγλωττισμένην σιωπᾶν” Id.Eq.352.
IV. (“γλῶσσα” 11.2) in pf. part. Pass., composed of far-fetched words, “λέξις” Philostr.VA 1.17, Eun.VSp.496.25D.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 11.2
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 352
    • Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, 131
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 380
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Life of Apollonius of Tyana, 1.17
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