intrico

From LSJ
Revision as of 08:22, 13 August 2017 by Spiros (talk | contribs) (6_8)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)

Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master

Source

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

in-trīco: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. 1. in-tricor,
I to entangle, perplex, embarrass (mostly ante- and post-class.).
I Of persons: Chrysippus intricatur hoc modo, Cic. Fragm. ap. Gell. 6, 2: lenonem intricatum dabo, will entangle, embarrass him, Plaut. Pers. 4, 1, 9.—
II Of things: ita intricavit hanc rem temeritas, Afran. ap. Non. 8, 27: peculium, Dig. 15, 1, 21.