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λι^παίνω , aor.
A.“ἐλίπηνα” Opp.H.4.357, “ἐλίπα_να” Axionic.4.10:—Med., aor. “ἐλιπήνατο” Euph.9.9; part. “λιπηνάμενος” APl.4.273 (Crin.):— Pass., aor. “ἐκ-λιπανθῆναι” Plu.Mar.21: pf. “λελίπασμαι” Damocr. ap. Gal.13.225:—oil, anoint, “τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐλαίῳ” Hp.Mul.1.35; “χρῶτα μύροις” Anaxil.18.1; χαρᾶς ὕπο σῶμα λ. ἱδρῶτι Aspasia ap.Ath.5.219c; “πάσμασι σῶμα λ.” Axionic. l. c., cf. PMag.Osl.1.212; of oiling the τόνοι in a machine to preserve them, Ph.Bel.61.37:—Med., anoint oneself, AP l. c.
2. of rivers, make fat, enrich, “χώραν ὕδασιν” E.Ba. 575 (lyr.), cf. Hec.454 (lyr.); of Sciron swallowed by a sea-tortoise, “χέλυος . . ἐλιπήνατο λαιμόν” Euph. l. c. (s. v.l.).
II. intr., of the eyes, glisten with tears, Epicur.Fr.120.
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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    • Euripides, Bacchae, 575
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