A.“ὠδι_νήσω” LXX Hb.3.10: aor. “ὤδι_να” AP7.561 (Jul.Aeg.), Opp.C.1.5, Jul.Or.2.56d; “ὠδίνησα” LXXPs.7.15:—so aor. Med. and Pass., ὠδινησάμην, -ήθην, Aq.Ps.113(114).7, Pr.8.25:—to have the pains of childbirth, be in travail, “ὡς δ᾽ ὅταν ὠδίνουσαν ἔχῃ βέλος ὀξὺ γυναῖκα” Il.11.269; “ὠδίνειν τρομέω: χαλεπὸν βέλος Εἰλειθυίας” Theoc.27.29, cf. Ar.Th.502, Ec.529, Hp.Epid.5.25, Pl.R.395e, etc.
2. c. acc., to be in travail of a child, bring forth, E.IA1234, LXXCa.8.5: of animals, “ὠ. νεοττούς” Ael.NA 2.46: prov., “ὤδινεν ὄρος” Luc.Hist.Conscr.23.
II. metaph. of any great pain, to be in travail or anguish, of the Cyclops, “στενάχων τε καὶ ὠδίνων ὀδύνῃσι” Od.9.415; “Κύπριδι” AP7.30 (Antip.Sid.); labour painfully, ὠδίνουσι μέλισσαι ib.9.363.22 (Mel.(?)); of the mind, to be in the throes or agonies of thought, Pl.Tht.148e, al.; κυοῦμέν τε καὶ ὠ. περὶ ἐπιστήμης ib.210b; “ὑπὲρ δισσῶν μίαν ὠδίνειν ψυχήν” E.Hipp. 258 (anap.); ὥστε μ᾽ ὠδίνειν τί φῄς what you mean, S.Aj.794, cf. E. Heracl.644; ὠδίνειν εἴς τι to long painfully for a thing, Hld.5.32: c. inf., Id.2.21, Him.Ecl.13.38, Or.4.1: c. acc., Hld.10.31; “ἔξοδον” Chor.42.20 p.517 F.-R.
