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|strgr=from kenteo (to [[prick]]); a [[point]] ("[[centre]]"), i.e. a [[sting]] ([[figuratively]], [[poison]]) or [[goad]] ([[figuratively]], [[divine]] [[impulse]]): [[prick]], [[sting]]. | |strgr=from kenteo (to [[prick]]); a [[point]] ("[[centre]]"), i.e. a [[sting]] ([[figuratively]], [[poison]]) or [[goad]] ([[figuratively]], [[divine]] [[impulse]]): [[prick]], [[sting]]. | ||
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|txtha=κέντρου, τό ([[κεντέω]] to [[prick]]);<br /><b class="num">1.</b> a [[sting]], as [[that]] of bees (Sept.) attributes to [[death]], personified, a [[κέντρον]], i. e. a [[deadly]] [[weapon]], and [[that]] [[κέντρον]] is said to be ἡ [[ἁμαρτία]] (56), [[because]] [[sin]] is [[death]]'s [[cause]] and [[punishment]] (?) (an [[iron]] [[goad]], for urging on oxen, horses and [[other]] beasts of [[burden]]; [[hence]], the [[proverb]] [[πρός]] κέντρα λακτίζειν, to [[kick]] [[against]] the [[goad]], i. e. to [[offer]] [[vain]] and [[perilous]] or [[ruinous]] [[resistance]]: [[Pindar]] [[Pythagoras]] 2,173; [[Aeschylus]] (Ag. 1624, cf.) Prom. 323; [[Euripides]], Bacch. 795; Terent. Phorm. 1,2, 28; Ammian. 18,5. | |||
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