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α δ άκρυσιν τ. E.Supp.21, cf. IA496; and simply, τ. παρειάν, ὄμμα, S.Ant.530 (anap.), E.Alc.764;
A.“τέγξαι βλέφαρον” B.5.157:—Pass., to be moistened, “δρόσοις” S.Aj.1209 (lyr.); δάκρυσί μου βλέφαρα τ. E.Hipp.854 (lyr.): τέγγομαι (sc. ὄσσε), i.e. I weep, A.Pers.1065 (lyr.).
2. c. acc. cogn., τ. δάκρυα shed tears, Pi.N.10.75; “ἁδινῶν χλωρὰν τέγγει δακρύων ἄχναν” S.Tr.848 (lyr.):—Pass., ὄμβρος χάλαζά θ᾽ αἱματοῦσσ᾽ ἐτέγγετο a shower fell, Id.OT1279.
3. soak, in Pass., distd. from τήκεσθαι, Arist.Mete.385b22; τέγγει is prob. f.l. for στέγει in Id.Pr.869b25.
II. soften (properly, by soaking or bathing), ἀοιδαὶ θέλξαν νιν ἁπτόμεναι: οὐδὲ θερμὸν ὕδωρ τόσον γε μαλθακὰ τέγξει (sic Plu.2.467d, τεύχει codd. Pi.) γυῖα (i.e. ὥστε μαλθακὰ γενέσθαι) Pi.N.4.4:—metaph. in Pass., τέγγει γὰρ οὐδέν thou art no whit softened, A.Pr.1008; “οὔτε γὰρ . . λόγοις ἐτέγγεθ᾽ ἥδε νῦν τ᾽ οὐ πείθεται” E.Hipp.303; χωρεῖτ᾽ ὀργῇ καὶ μὴ τέγγεσθ' Ar.Lys.550; “ὑπὸ κακοδοξίας τέγγεσθαι” Pl.R.361c, cf. Lg.880e.
III. dye, stain: metaph., “οὐ ψεύδεϊ τέγξω λόγον” Pi.O. 4.19. (Cf. Lat. tingo.）
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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