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μύρω [υ_], Ep. Verb, Act. only impf.,
A.flow, trickle, δάκρυσι μῦρον they trickled with tears, of poisoned arrows, Hes.Sc.132.
II. elsewh. always in Med. μύρομαι (in early Ep. only pres. and impf.), melt into tears, shed tears, “πολέες δ᾽ ἀμφ᾽ αὐτὸν ἑταῖροι μύρονθ᾽” Il.19.6; “κλαίοντέ τε μυρομένω τε” 22.427; “γοόωσά τε μυρομένη τε” 6.373, cf. Od.19.119; “ἐλεὸν μύρετο” Hes.Op.206: aor. 1 opt. 2sg. “μύρηαι” Theoc.16.31.
2. later, of a river, flow, “ῥείθροισι . . μύρεται Σίνις” Lyc.982, cf. A.R.2.372; αἵματι μ. trickle with blood, Id.4.666.
3. c. acc., weep for, bewail, Bion 1.68: aor. 1 inf. μύρασθαι and 3sg. ἐμύρατο (s. v.l.), Mosch.3.73, 90.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 132
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 206
    • Homer, Iliad, 6.373
    • Homer, Iliad, 22.427
    • Homer, Odyssey, 19.119
    • Homer, Iliad, 19.6
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.372
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4.666
    • Bion of Phlossa, Epitaphius Adonis, 1.68
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