Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ψελλίζω

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A.falter in speech, speak inarticulately, like a child, “ψ. καὶ τραυλίζουσι” Arist.HA536b8:—so in Med., Pl.Grg.485b, 485c; ψελλίζονται καὶ τραυλίζουσι （-ονται Bonitz), “τοῦτο δ᾽ ἐστὶν ἔνδεια τῶν γραμμάτων” Arist.PA660a26; “ψελλιζόμενος τὴν Ἑλλάδα φωνήν” Hld.8.15: metaph., of Empedocles and the early philosophers, speak indistinctly, “ἃ ψελλίζεται λέγων Ἐμπεδοκλῆς” Arist.Metaph.985a5; ψελλιζομένῃ ἔοικεν ἡ πρώτη φιλοσοφία περὶ πάντων ib.993a15; of metals, hesitate to alloy, Id.GC328b9:—Act. is later in this sense, used of Aristotle, Phld.Rh.2.51S.

2. metaph., ψελλιζόμενος ἐς τὰ πολεμικά, of a boy soldier, Philostr.Her.19.2.

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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