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ἀγρυπν-έω , pf.
A.“ἠγρύπνηκα” Hp.Prog.2:—lie awake, pass sleepless nights, Thgn.471, Hp.l.c., Pl.Lg.695a, etc.; opp. καθεύδω, X.Cyr. 8.3.42; ἀγρυπνεῖν τὴν νύκτα to pass a sleepless night, Id.HG7.2.19, Men.113; οἱ -οῦντες sufferers from insomnia, Dsc.4.64.
2. metaph., to be watchful, LXX Wi.6.15, Ev.Marc.13.33, Ep.Eph.6.18; “ὑπὲρ τῶν ψυχῶν” Ep.Heb.13.17; “ἐπὶ τὰ κακά” LXX Da.9.14: c. inf., “μηθέν σε ἐνοχλήσειν” PGrenf.2.14a3.
3. c.acc., lie awake and think of, “τινά” PMag.Par.1.2966.
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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