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ἀγα^νακτ-έω , properly in physical sense,
A.feel a violent irritation, of the effects of cold on the body, Hp.Liqu.2, cf. Heliod. ap. Orib.46.7.8; of wine, ferment, Plu.2.734e; so metaph., ζεῖ τε καὶ ἀ., of the soul, Pl.Phdr.251c.
II. metaph., to be displeased, vexed, “μηδ᾽ ἀγανάκτει” Ar.V.287; esp. show outward signs of grief, κλάων καὶ ἀ. Pl.Phd.117d; “τὰ σπλάγχν᾽ ἀγανακτεῖ” Ar.Ra.1006, etc.; ἀ. ἐνθυμούμενος . . And.4.18:—foll. by a relat., ἀ. ὅτι . . Antipho 4.2.1, Lys. 3.3; ἀ. εἰ . . , ἐάν . . And.1.139, Pl.La.194a.
2. c. dat. rei, to be vexed at a thing, “θανάτῳ” Pl.Phd.63b, etc.; c. acc. neut., ib.64a; ἀ. ταῦτα, ὅτι . . Id.Euthphr.4d; “ἀ. ἐπί τινι” Lys.1.1, Isoc.16.49, etc.; “ὑπέρ τινος” Pl.Euthd.283e, etc.; “περί τινος” Id.Ep.349d; “διά τι” Id.Phd.63c; “πρός τι” Epict.Ench.4, M.Ant.7.66; and sts. c. gen. rei, AB334.
3. to be vexed at or with a person, “τινί” X.HG5.3.11; “πρός τινα” Plu.Cam.28, Diog.Oen.68; “κατά τινος” Luc.Tim.18:—c. part., to be angry at, “ἀ. ἀποθνῄσκοντας” Pl.Phd.62e, cf. 67d.
III. Med. in act. sense, aor. part. “-ησάμενος” Luc.Somn.4; prob. in Palaeph.40; “ἠγανάκτηνται τῷ πράγματι” Hyp.Fr.70.
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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