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

A.“-ψω” E.Heracl.704, etc.: aor. ἔβλαψα, Ep.“βλάψε” Il.23.774: aor. 2 “ἔβλα^βον” Q.S.5.509: pf. “βέβλα^φα” D.19.180, Plb.12.26.2, ἔβλαφα （κατ-) IG7.303.51 (Oropus):—Pass., fut.“βλα^βήσομαι” Isoc.1.25, Pl.Men.77e, Grg.475d, Hp.Mi.373a; “βεβλάψομαι” Hp.Acut.16: also fut. Med. βλάψομαι (in pass. signf.) Th.1.81, 6.64: aor. 1 “ἐβλά-φθην” Il.16.331, etc.: aor. 2 ἐβλάβην [α^], 3pl. ἔβλαβεν, βλάβεν, 23.461, 545, part. “βλα^βείς” A.Ag.120 (lyr.) (aor. Med. βλάψαντο only in Q.S.5.466): pf. “βέβλαμμαι” Il.16.660, etc.:—disable, hinder, “μή τιν᾽ ἑταίρων βλάπτοι ἐλαυνόντων” Od.13.22; “βλάψας δέ μοι ἵππους” Il.23.571; β. πόδας disable the feet for running, lame them, ib.782:—Pass., ζωὸν ἕλε βλαφθέντα κατὰ κλόνον entangled in the mêlée, 16.331; ὄζῳ ἔνι βλαφθέντε μυρικίνῳ [the horses] caught in a branch, 6.39; βλάβεν ἅρματα καὶ ταχε᾽ ἵππω chariots and horses were stopped, 23.545; Διόθεν βλαφθέντα βέλεμνα stopped, baffled by Zeus, 15.489, cf. 484; βεβλαμμένος ἦτορ stopped in his life (s. v.l.), 16.660.

2. c. gen., hinder from, “τόν γε θεοὶ βλάπτουσι κελεύθου” Od.1.195; “οὐδέ τις αὐτὸν βλάπτειν οὔτ᾽ αἰδοῦς οὔτε δίκης ἐθέλει” Tyrt.12.40 (repeated in Thgn. 938):—Pass.,βλαβέντα λοισθίων δρόμων arrested in its last course, A.Ag.120 (lyr.).

II. of the mind, distract, pervert, mislead, of the gods, “τὸν δέ τις ἀθανάτων βλάψε φρένας” Od.14.178, cf. Trag.Adesp. 455: c. acc. pers., Il.22.15, Od.23.14; so of Ate, “φθάνει δέ τε πᾶσαν ἐπ᾽ αἶαν βλάπτουσ᾽ ἀνθρώπους” Il.9.507; also of wine, Od.21.294; βλαφθείς, Lat. mente captus, Il.9.512: so c. gen., “ἥ τε [Περσεφόνη] . . βλάπτουσα νόοιο” Thgn.705; “νόου βεβλαμμένος ἐσθλοῦ” Id.223.

III. after Hom., damage, hurt, οἷσι μὴ βλάψῃ θεός (sc. τὰ τέκνα) A.Eu. 661, etc.: with neut. Adj., “πλείω β. τινά” Th.6.33; “μείζω” Pl.Ap.30c; “ἄλλο τι” X.HG1.1.22, etc.:—Pass., “μεγάλα βεβλάφθαι” Id.Cyr.5.3.30; “βεβλαμμένος τὸν ὀφθαλμόν” PStrassb.52.2 (ii A. D.), etc.: c. acc. cogn., β. τοὺς βίους μείζους βλάβας do greater mischiefs to . . , Posidipp.12.4: c. dupl. acc., β. τὴν πόλιν τοὺς ὑπολοίπους rob her of . . , App.BC2.131:—Pass., τοσούσδε βλαβῆναι τὴν πόλιν lose them, Id.Hann.28; τὸ βλαβέν, = βλάβη, Pl.Lg.933e.

2. c. acc. rei, β. λόγον mar the prophecy, Pi.P.9.94; τοὺς ὅρκους violate them, Arist.Fr.148. (βλαπ-< μλαπ- (mḷq[uglide]), cf. Skt. marcáyati 'injure', mṛktás 'wounded', Lat. mulco 'maltreat'.)