totter
From LSJ
ἀσκὸς ὕστερον δεδάρθαι κἀπιτετρίφθαι γένος → I'd be willing to be flayed into a wineskin afterwards and to have my line wiped out
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb intransitive
stagger: Ar. and P. ἰλιγγιᾶν, σφάλλεσθαι (Xen.).
swoon: P. λιποψυχεῖν, V. προλείπω, προλείπειν.
reel before an attack: P. κλίνεσθαι; see reel.
be in distress: P. and V. κάμνειν, πονεῖν; see labour.
the house long left in decay totters to its fall: V. χρόνῳ δ' ἀργῆσαν ἤμυσε στέγος (Sophocles, Fragment).
