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ἀτάλλω [α^], （ἀταλός) only in pres. and impf.,
A.skip in childish glee, gambol, “ἄταλλε δὲ κήτε᾽ ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ” Il.13.27, cf. Mosch.2.116, Philostr. Im.2.3.
II. Act., bring up a child, rear, foster, Hom.Epigr. 4.2; “νέαν ψυχὴν ἀτάλλων” S.Aj.559: metaph., “ἐλπὶς ἀτάλλοισα καρδίαν” Pi.Fr.214:—Pass., grow up, wax, h.Merc.400:—Act., intr. in this sense, ἐτρέφετ᾽ ἀτάλλων [α_τ] Hes.Op.131.—Poet. and later Prose.
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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    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 131
    • Homer, Iliad, 13.27
    • Sophocles, Ajax, 559
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