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ὀριγνάομαι , fut.
A.“-ήσομαι” D.C.41.53 : aor. “ὠριγνήθην” Antipho Soph. 21, Isoc.Ep.6.9 :—stretch oneself, like ὀρέγομαι, ἔγχεσιν ἠδ᾽ ἐλάτῃς αὐτοσχεδὸν ὠριγνῶντο they fought with outstretched spears, Hes.Sc.190.
2. c. gen., stretch oneself after a thing, aim at, grasp at, “ὅτε . . θηρῶν ὀριγνῷτο” E.Ba.1255 ; “ποίας δόξης” Isoc. l. c.; “τελαμῶνος” Theoc.24.44 ; “κερδέων” Herod.7.37 ; “χορείας” Pl.Ax.366a ; “τοῦ πλείονος” Socr.Ep.29, D.C.l.c.; aim at, strive, c. inf., “κενῶσαι τελέως” Gal. 11.363 ; “νικῆσαι” Id.10.5.
3. reach, win, “Δήμητρος εὐνῆς” D.H.1.61 (v.l. εὐνήν).
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 (5):
    • Euripides, Bacchae, 1255
    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 190
    • Isocrates, Ad filios Jasonis, 9
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 1.61
    • Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 41.53
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