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ζωγρ-έω , (ζωός, ἀγρέω)
A.take, save alive, take captive instead of killing, “ζώγρει, Ἀτρέος υἱέ, σὺ δ᾽ ἄξια δέξαι ἄποινα” Il.6.46, cf. 10.378, Hdt.1.86, etc.; “εἷλε . . καὶ ἐζώγρησε” Id.3.52; “τοὺς μὲν ἀπέκτειναν, τινὰς δὲ καὶ ἐζώγρησαν” Th.2.92; “πλὴν ὅσον ἐκ τριῶν νεῶν οὓς ἐζώγρησαν” Id.7.23; πλὴν μηδαμῇ μηδαμῶς ζωγροῦντας provided that they do not spare him alive, Pl.Lg.868c; opp. διαφθείρειν, ἀποκτεῖναι, Plb.3.84.10, LXXNu.31.18: metaph., “ἀνθρώπους ἔσῃ ζωγρῶν” Ev.Luc. 5.10; of ships, “ἃς ἐζώγρησεν αὐτάνδρους” Charito 7.6:—Pass., Hdt.1.66,5.77.
II. restore to life and strength, revive, “περὶ δὲ πνοιὴ Βορέαο ζώγρει ἐπιπνείουσα” Il.5.698 (quoted by Aret.CA2.3); preserve alive, “ζώγρει, δέσποτ᾽ ἄναξ, τὸν σὸν ναετῆρα” Epigr.Gr.841.7 (Thrace, ii A.D.).
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 (15):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.86
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.77
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.66
    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.52
    • Homer, Iliad, 10.378
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.698
    • Old Testament, Numbers, 31.18
    • Plato, Laws, 868c
    • Thucydides, Histories, 2.92
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.23
    • Homer, Iliad, 6.46
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.84.10
    • Aretaeus, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo, 2.3
    • New Testament, Luke, 5.10
    • Chariton, De Chaerea et Callirhoe, 7.6
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