σκωληκόβρωτος
χλανίσι δὲ δὴ φαναῖσι περιπεπεµµένοι καὶ µαστίχην τρώγοντες, ὄζοντες µύρου. τὸ δ’ ὅλον οὐκ ἐπίσταµαι ἐγὼ ψιθυρίζειν, οὐδὲ κατακεκλασµένος πλάγιον ποιήσας τὸν τράχηλον περιπατεῖν, ὥσπερ ἑτέρους ὁρῶ κιναίδους ἐνθάδε πολλοὺς ἐν ἄστει καὶ πεπιττοκοπηµένους → Dressed up in bright clean fine cloaks and nibbling pine-thistle, smelling of myrrh. But I do not at all know how to whisper, nor how to be enervated, and make my neck go back and forth, just as I see many others, kinaidoi, here in the city, do, and waxed with pitch-plasters.
English (LSJ)
ον,
A worm-eaten, of a tree, ib.3.12.6, CP5.9.1; γῆ PTeb.701.81 (iii B.C.), PSI5.490.14 (iii B.C.). 2 eaten of worms, of a man, Act.Ap.12.23.
German (Pape)
[Seite 909] von Würmern gefressen, N. T.; wurmstichig, Theophr.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
σκωληκόβρωτος: -ον, ὁ ὑπὸ σκωλήκων φαγωμένος, ἐπὶ δένδρου, Θεοφρ. π. Φυτ. Αἰτ. 5. 9, 1· ὁ σκωλήκων πεπληρωμένος, ἐπὶ ἀνθρώπου, Πράξ. Ἀποστ. ιβ΄, 23· πρβλ. σκωληκοτόκος.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ος, ον :
1 mangé des vers;
2 piqué des vers.
Étymologie: σκώληξ, βιβρώσκω.
English (Strong)
from σκώληξ and a derivative of βιβρώσκω; worm-eaten, i.e. diseased with maggots: eaten of worms.
English (Thayer)
σκωληκοβρωτον (σκώληξ and βιβρώσκω), eaten of worms: Acts 12:23, cf. 2 Maccabees 9:9. (of a tree, Theophrastus, c. pl. 5,9, 1.)
