κνήθω
σφάγιον ἐπ' ὀλέθρῳ, γυναικεῖον ἀμφικεῖσθαι μόρον → my wife's death, lies upon me, bringing destruction after death | Is it that now there waits in store for me, my own wife's death to crown my misery
English (LSJ)
later form of κνάω,
A scratch, ὡς λέγεται, κνήθειν οἶδεν ὄνος τὸν ὄνον AP12.238.8 (Strat.), cf. Moer.p.234 P.:—Med., κνήθεσθαι εἰς τὰς ἀκάνθας τὰ ἕλκη to get one's sores scratched, Arist.HA609a32. 2 Pass., itch, Paul. Aeg.6.60; κνηθόμενοι τὴν ἀκοήν 2 Ep.Ti.4.3; to be provoked, Arist. Pr.957b15.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1460] nach Moeris hellenistisch für κνάω, kratzen; τὸν ὄνον κνήθεσθαι εἰς τὰς ἀκάνθας τὰ ἕλκη, sich reiben, Arist. H. A. 9, 1. – Ein Jucken, Brennen verursachen, u. pass. ein Jucken empfinden, II. Timoth. 4, 3; – übh. reizen, Arist. probl. 31, 4; bes. zu Liebe, Groll u. dgl., ὄνος ὄνον κνήθει Strat. 77 (XII, 238).
