scramble
From LSJ
Οὔτ' ἐν φθιμένοις οὔτ' ἐν ζωοῖσιν ἀριθμουμένη, χωρὶς δή τινα τῶνδ' ἔχουσα μοῖραν → Neither among the dead nor the living do I count myself, having a lot apart from these
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb intransitive
every man is scrambling for a front seat: Ar. εἰς τὴν προεδρίαν πᾶς ἀνὴρ ὠστίζεται (Acharnians 42).
by pushing and scrambling he got round unobserved: P. χαλεπῶς καὶ μόλις περιελθὼν ἔλαθε (Thuc. 4, 36).
scramble up: see climb.
substantive
confusion: P. ταραχή, ἡ, P. and V. θόρυβος, ὁ.
competition: P. φιλονεικία, P. and V. ἔρις, ἡ, ἀγών, ὁ, ἅμιλλα, ἡ.
