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ἁρπαγ-ή , ἡ,
A.seizure, robbery, rape, first in Sol.4.13; ὀφλὼν ἁρπαγῆς δίκην found guilty of rape, A.Ag.534; “αἰτέειν δίκας τῆς ἁ.” Hdt.1.2; ἁρπαγῇ χρησαμένους ib.5; ἁρπαγὴν ποιεῖσθαι, ποιεῖν, Th.6.52, X.Cyr. 7.2.12; “ἐφ᾽ ἁ. τραπέσθαι” Th.4.104, X.Cyr.4.2.25; “τοῦ κρητῆρος ἡ ἁ.” Hdt.3.48: pl., of a single act, “συνεπρήξαντο τὰς Ἑλένης ἁ.” Id.5.94, cf. A.Th.351 (lyr.), Supp.510; Καδμείων ἁ., of the Sphinx, E.Ph.1021 (lyr.).
II. thing seized, booty, prey, “τοῦ φθάσαντος ἁ.” A.Pers.752; ἁ. κυσί, θηρσί, Id.Th.1019, E.El.896; ἁρπαγὴν ποιεῖσθαί τι to make booty of a thing. Th.8.62.
III. greediness, X.Cyr.5.2.17.
IV. ἐν ἁρπαγῇ σελήνης when the moon is invisible, PMag.Par.1.750.
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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