λεπίζω
From LSJ
Έγ', ὦ ταλαίπωρ', αὐτὸς ὧν χρείᾳ πάρει. Τὰ πολλὰ γάρ τοι ῥήματ' ἢ τέρψαντά τι, ἢ δυσχεράναντ', ἢ κατοικτίσαντά πως, παρέσχε φωνὴν τοῖς ἀφωνήτοις τινά –> Wretched brother, tell him what you need. A multitude of words can be pleasurable, burdensome, or they can arouse pity somehow — they give a kind of voice to the voiceless.
English (LSJ)
(λέπος)
A peel off the husk, skin or bark, mostly in Pass., Antiph. 217.10 (codd. Ath.), Thphr.HP9.2.7, Arist.Mir.830a15 (s.v.l.), Ph.Bel.88.45, Dsc.1.36; of the tongue, Aët.8.40:—Act. in LXX Ge. 30.37, al. II (λεπίς) strip an object of its covering of metal plates, Plb.22.4.7, 10.27.11 (Pass.).
German (Pape)
[Seite 29] schälen, die Schale, Rinde od. Haut abziehen, Pol. 10, 27, 11. 23, 2, 7 u. Sp.
