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σολοικ-ίζω , fut.
A.“-ιῶ” A.D.Synt.199.14:—speak or write incorrectly, commit a solecism, φωνῇ Σκυθικῇ ς. speak bad Scythian, Hdt.4.117; “ς. τῇ φωνῇ” D.45.30, cf. Arist.SE173b20, Rh.1407b18; defined as τῇ λέξει βαρβαρίζειν, Id.SE165b20; coupled with βαρβαρίζειν, Phld.Rh.1.154 S., Plu.2.59f.
2. to be guilty of an absurdity, “ς. ἐν δόξαις” Epicur.Nat.14.9, cf. 10; περὶ σολοικιζόντων λόγων, title of treatise by Chrysippus, Stoic.2.6.
II. err against good manners or propriety in any way (in speech, thought, dress, eating, etc.), behave boorishly, Zeno Stoic.1.23; “περί τι” Plu.2.45e; “τῇ χειρί” Philostr.VS 1.25.9.
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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