Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ἀκέομαι

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I. trans., heal, cure, c. acc. of thing healed, “ἕλκος ἄκεσσαι” Il.16.523; “ἕλκε᾽ ἀκειόμενοι” 16.29; “ψώρην ἀκέσασθαι” Hdt.4.90; of part healed, “τὰ ἔσω ἀσκοῖσιν” Hp.Mochl.25; “ἄχος” S.Tr.1035; “βλέφαρον ἀκέσαιο τυφλόν” E.Hec.1067; “τὸν Λητώ τε καὶ Ἄρτεμις . . ἀκέοντο” Il.5.448, cf. 402: c. gen. morbi, “νούσου . . μ᾽ ἀκέσω βαρυαλγέος” Epigr.Gr.803 (Delos), cf. Paus.8.18.8.

2. stanch, quench, “πίον τ᾽ ἀκέοντό τε δίψαν” Il.22.2, cf. Pi.P.9.104.

3. generally, mend, repair, “νῆας ἀκειόμενος” Od.14.383; freq. of tailors or cobblers, Luc.Fug.33, Nec.17; of a spider mending its web, Arist. HA623a18.

4. metaph., make amends for, repair, “ἁμαρτάδα” Hdt.1.167; “τὰ ἐπιφερόμενα” Id.3.16, cf. E.Med.199; “μήνιμα” Antipho 4.3.7; “ἀδίκημα” Pl.R.364c; “ἀπορίας” X.Mem.2.7.1.

II. intr. or abs., apply a remedy, make amends, “ἀλλ᾽ ἀκεώμεθα θᾶσσον: ἀκεσταί τοι φρένες ἐσθλῶν” Il.13.115; “ἀλλ᾽ ἀκέσασθε, φίλοι” Od.10.69, cf. S.Ant.1027, Hdt.3.40, Pl.Phlb.30b.

III. Act., Hp.Loc.Hom. 10; ἀκέεται in pass. sense, Aret. CA1.1; “ἀκεομένου τοῦ κακοῦ” Id.SD 1.6: aor. “ἀκεσθῆναι” Paus.2.27.3.

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 (26):
- Antiphon, Third Tetralogy, 3.7
- Euripides, Hecuba, 1067
- Euripides, Medea, 199
- Herodotus, Histories, 1.167
- Herodotus, Histories, 3.16
- Herodotus, Histories, 3.40
- Herodotus, Histories, 4.90
- Homer, Iliad, 13.115
- Homer, Iliad, 16.29
- Homer, Iliad, 16.523
- Homer, Iliad, 22.2
- Homer, Odyssey, 14.383
- Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8.18.8
- Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.27.3
- Plato, Republic, 364c
- Plato, Philebus, 30b
- Sophocles, Antigone, 1027
- Xenophon, Memorabilia, 2.7.1
- Homer, Iliad, 5.448
- Homer, Odyssey, 10.69
- Sophocles, Trachiniae, 1035
- Aretaeus, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo, 1.1
- Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 2), 1.6
- Lucian, Necyomantia, 17
- Lucian, Fugitivi, 33
- Cassius Dio, Historia Romana, 38.19

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