Meaning of athetize | Babel Free

Definitions

To reject a passage of text as spurious.

British, English, Oxford, US, transitive

Examples

“But this is a doubtful compliment to a ship ; the alternative "a first-rate sailor," suits the context better, and so here, "or first-rate build⟳," primarie compacti (Döderl[ein]), avoids the awkward tautology with νεοτευχέες which made Zenod[otos] athetize the line.”

“All of this, of course, flies in the face⟳ of μιχτὴν ϱ̔αψῳδίαων. But that phrase is suspicious in its own⟳ right. It was bracketed long ago by Tyrwhitt, and the Arabic version translates it strangely if at all. […] In short, there is every reason⟳ to athetize μιχτὴν ραψῳδίαων as a note⟳ of late origin which has gotten into the text.”

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