The Classical Quarterly (New Series)

Table of Contents - 1969 - Volume 19, Issue 02  

Research Article

The Verb AYω and its Compounds

E.K. Borthwicka1

a1 University of Edinburgh

In a recent article Mr. D. A. West investigated the meaning of haurire, haustus, showing how the primary sense ‘to take by scooping, to draw’ is present in a number of passages which have been incorrectly interpreted in the light of extensions made only later of this usage. He noted in passing that ‘this sense may well survive in S000983880002471X_inline1, the cognate of haurire’. In this article I hope to show that the recognition of this as the basic sense of S000983880002471X_inline2 and its cognates and compounds helps to clear away a number of errors arising from the misunderstanding of the fact that the action of scooping, or drawing, is at the root of Gk. S000983880002471X_inline3, as of Lat. haurire.