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English > Greek (Woodhouse)

verb transitive

cut up small: P. κερματίζειν.

verb intransitive

walk affectedly: V. ἁβρὸν βαίνειν, σαυλοῦσθαι (Euripides, Cyclops 40).

I have plainly stated all that I think without mincing matters: P. ἃ γιγνώσκω πάνθ' ἁπλῶς, οὐδὲν ὑποστειλάμενος, πεπαρρησίασμαι (Dem. 54).