A.“ἄγξω” Ar.Ec.638, Luc.DMort.22.1: aor. 1 inf. ἄγξαι v.l. for ἄξαι LXX 4 Ma.9.17, (ἀπ-) Ar.Pax796:—Med. and Pass. (v. infr.) only in pres.:—squeeze, esp. the throat, “ἄγχε μιν ἱμὰς ὑπὸ δειρήν” Il.3.371; embrace, “μὴ θέλουσαν” Anacreont.57.22, cf. Herod. 1.18; hug, in wrestling, Id.2.12, Luc.Anach.1, Paus.8.40.2, Philostr.Im. 1.6 (Pass.); strangle, throttle, “τοὺς πατέρας ἦγχον νύκτωρ” Ar.V.1039, cf. Ec.638,640; “τὸν Κέρβερον ἀπῇζας ἄγχων” Id.Ra.468, cf. Av.1575; “κἂν ταῦρον ἄγχοις” Id.Lys.81, cf. Crates Com.29, D.54.20, Theoc.5.106, APl.4.90; “ἐν χαλινῷ τὰς σιαγόνας ἄ.” LXX Ps.31 (32).9: metaph., of pressing creditors, Ar.Eq.775, Luc.Symp.32; “ψυχὴ ὑπὸ τοῦ σώματος ἀγχομένη” Corp.Herm. 10.24, cf. 7.3; of a guilty conscience, “τοῦτο . . ἄγχει, σιωπᾶν ποιεῖ” D.19.208:—Med., strangle oneself, Hp. Morb.2.68:—Pass., Pi.N.1.46, D.47.59, Theoc.7.125; to be drowned, Hp.Virg.1.—Not in Trag.
ἄγχω , fut.
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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