A.“γουνασάμεσθα” Orph.A.618, subj. “γουνάσσηαι” A.R.4.747, cf. Orph.A.943: (γόνυ):—Ep. Verb, clasp another's knees (v. sub “γόνυ” 1.2): hence, implore, entreat, abs., Il. 11.130: c. inf., τῶν ὕπερ . . γουνάζομαι οὐ παρεόντων ἑστάμεναι κρατερῶς in whose name . . I implore you to stand your ground, 15.665; “νῦν δέ σε πρὸς πατρὸς γουνάζομαι” Od.13.324; “νῦν δέ σε τῶν ὄπιθεν γ., . . πρός τ᾽ ἀλόχου καὶ πατρός” 11.66; μή με . . γούνων γουνάζεο entreat me not by [clasping] my knees, Il.22.345.
γουνάζομαι , fut. -σομαι: aor. 1
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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