A.grieving, mourning, “ὀδυρόμενος καὶ ἀχεύων” Il.9.612, Od.2.23; “κεῖτ᾽ ἀχέων” Il.2.724; “ἀχέουσά περ ἔμπης” Od.15.361, cf. Sapph.Supp.1.11: c. acc., κῆρ ἀχέων grieving in heart, Il.5.399; θυμὸν ἀχεύων ib.869, 18.461, Hes. Op.399: c. neut. Adj., “πυκινόν περ ἀχεύων” Od.11.88; “μέγ᾽ ἀχεύων” 16.139: c. gen. causae, τῆς ἀχέων sorrowing for her, Il.2.694, 18.446; “Ὀδυσσῆος μέγ᾽ ἀχεύων” Od.16.139; so “ἕνεκ᾽ ἀλλοτρίων ἀχέων” Il.20.298; “τοῦγ᾽ εἵνεκα θυμὸν ἀχεύων” Od.21.318; later “ἐπὶ σφετέροις ἀχέουσα παισί” A.R.3.643.
II. other forms (chiefly Ep.):
1. in causal sense, vex, annoy, redupl. aor. 2 ἤκα^χε (but part. ἀκαχών intr., grieving, Hes.Th.868): hence redupl. pres. ἀκα^χίζω, fut. ἀκαχήσω, aor. 1 ἀκάχησα: c. acc. pers., “μέγα δ᾽ ἤκαχε λαόν” Il.16.822, cf. Od.16.427; ἐμὲ μεγάλως ἀκαχίζεις ib.432; θανὼν ἀκάχησε τοκῆας by his death, Il.23.223; “ἑ μάλιστα ἤκαχ᾽ ἀποφθιμένη” Od.15.357; “ἀκαχήσεις μηλοβοτῆρας” h.Merc.286.
2. Pass., ἄχομαι , ἄχνυ^μαι , ἀκα^χίζομαι , imper. ἀκαχίζεο, -ίζεν, Il.6.486, Od. 11.486: pf. “ἀκάχημαι” 8.314, Ep. 3pl. ἀκηχέδαται (with v.l. ἀκηχέαται) Il.17.637; imper. “ἀκάχησο” A.R.4.1324; inf. “ἀκάχησθαι” Il.19.335; part. ἀκαχήμενος (accent. as a pres.) ib.312, Ep. also “ἀκηχέμενος” 5.364, 18.29: plpf. “ἀκαχήατο” 12.179: aor. 2, 3pl. “ἀκάχοντο” Od.16.342; opt. ἀκαχοίμην, -οιτο, -οίμεθα, 1.236, Il.13.344, 16.16, etc.:—in later Ep. pres. ἀκάχονται, impf. ἀκάχοντο, Q.S.3.224, 5.652:—Constr.: abs., “ἄχομαι” Od.18.256, 19.129; “ἄχνυται” Il. 18.62; ἀχνύμενος, like ἀχέων or ἀχεύων, 1.103, 241, etc.; “ἀχνυμένῃ κραδίῃ” 24.584; “ἀχνύμενος κῆρ” 7.428,431, etc.; “ἀκαχήμενος ἦτορ” Od. 9.62, etc.; “θυμὸν ἀκηχέμεναι” Il.18.29; “ἀκαχήατο θυμόν” 12.179: less freq. c. dat., “ἀκαχίζεο θυμῷ” 6.486; also “κῆρ ἄχνυται ἐν θυμῷ, ἄχνυτο . . θυμὸς ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν” 6.524, 14.38: c. gen. causae, grieve for, sts. with a part., ἀχνύμενός περ ἑταιροῦ, υἷος ἑοῖο, etc., 8.125, 24.550, etc.; “σεῖο . . ἀχνύμεθα φθιμένοιο” Od.11.558, cf. 14.376, Il.16.16; less freq. c. dat., “οὔ κε θανόντι περ ὧδ᾽ ἀκαχοίμην” Od.1.236; “ἀχνυμένη περὶ παιδί” h.Cer.77: later c. acc., lament, “τὸ δ᾽ ἄχνυμαι” Pi.P.7.16; “ἀχνύμενος μόρον Ἀντιγόνης” S.Ant.627: with part., “ὁρόων ἀκάχημαι” Od.8.314, cf. Il.17.637; “μή τι θανὼν ἀκαχίζευ” Od.11.486, cf. Il.6.486.—Once in Trag., S.l.c.; never in Prose.
