A.“στενάχεσκον” Il.19.132, Q.S.3.549 (aor. is ἐστονάχησα, v. στοναχέω), and mostly in pres. part.:—groan, sigh, wail, freq. in Hom., ἁδινὰ ς. Il.24.123, al.; βαρέα ς. 8.334, al.; βαρὺ ς. Od.8.95,534; μεγάλα (as v.l. for βαρέα) 4.516, 23.317; πυκνὰ μάλα ς. Il.18.318, 21.417; also in Trag. (lyr.), as S.El.141; πατρός (dub. l.) ib.1076: metaph. of the roar of torrents, Il.16.391 (Med. of the loud breathing of horses galloping, ib.393); “θὴρ . . στενάχων βρέμει” A.R.1.1247; στοᾶς στεναχούσης groaning from being overcrowded, Ar.Ach.548.
στενάχω [α^], poet. lengthd. form of στένω, only pres. and impf., Ep.
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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