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βοάω , Ep. 3sg. βοάᾳ, 3pl. βοόωσιν, part. βοόων, Il.14.394, 17.265, 15.687: Ion.impf.
A.“βοάασκε” A.R.2.588: fut. “βοήσομαι” Th.7.48, etc.; Dor. “βοάσομαι” Ar.Nu.1154 (lyr.); later “βοήσω” A.R.3.792, AP7.32 (Jul.), etc. (“βοάσω” E.Ion 1447 (lyr.) is aor. subj.): aor. “ἐβόησα” Il.11.15, S.Tr. 772, etc.; Ep. “βόησα” Il.23.847; Dor. “βόασα” B.16.14; Ion. “ἔβωσα” Il.12.337, Hdt.1.146, Hippon. 1, Herod. 3.23; sts.in Com., Cratin. 396, Ar. Pax 1155: pf. “βεβόηκα” Philostr.VS2.1.11:—Med., “βοώμενος” Ar.V. 1228 (perh. Pass.): Ep.aor. “βοήσατο” Q.S.10.465, Ion. “ἐβώσατο” Theoc. 17.60; part. “βοησάμενος” Ant.Lib.25.3:—Pass., Ion. aor. “ἐβώσθην” Hdt.6.131: pf. “βεβόημαι” AP7.138 (Aceratus), Ion. part. “βεβωμένος” Hdt.3.39: plpf. “ἐβεβόητο” Paus.6.11.3:—cry aloud, shout, “ὀξὺ βοήσας” Il.17.89; “ὅσσον τε γέγωνε βοήσας” Od.6.294; “πᾶσα γὰρ πόλις βοᾷ” A. Ag.1106 (lyr.); “ὡς δράκων β.” Id.Th.381; β. γραμμάτων ἐν ξυλλαβαῖς ib.468; οἱ βοησόμενοι men ready to shout (in the ἐκκλησία), D. 13.20; ὁ δῆμος ἐβόησευ . . , of acclamations, POxy.41.19 (iii/iv A. D.), cf. Charito 1.1, al., IG12(9).906 (Chalcis, iii A. D.).
2. of things, roar, howl, as the wind and waves, “οὔτε . . κῦμα τόσον βοάᾳ ποτὶ χέρσον” Il.14.394; resound, echo, “ἀμφὶ δέ τ᾽ ἄκραι ἠϊόνες βοόωσιν” 17.265; “βοᾷ δὲ πόντιος κλύδων” A.Pr.431 (lyr.), etc.; βοᾷ δ᾽ ἐν ὠσὶ κέλαδος rings, Id.Pers.605; τὸ πρᾶγμα φανερόν ἐστιν, αὐτὸ γὰρ βοᾷ it proclaims itself, Ar.V.921; “φαίνεται αὐτὰ τὰ στοιχεῖα βοᾶν ὡς ἑλκόμενα” Arist. Metaph.1091a10.
II. c. acc. pers., call to one, call on, Pi. P.6.36, E.Med.205 (lyr.), Hdt.8.92, X.Cyr.7.2.5, Herod.4.41:— Med.βοησάμενοι δαίμονας Ant.Lib.l.c.
2. c. acc., call for, shout out for, S.Tr.772; “β. τὴν βοήθειαν” Hell.Oxy.10.2.
3. c. acc. cogn., “β. βοάν” Ar.Nu.1153 (lyr.); β. μέλος, ἰωάν, S.Aj.976, Ph.216 (lyr.); “β. λοιγόν” A.Ch.402 (lyr.); “ἄλγος” E.Tr.1310(lyr.): c. dupl. acc., βοάσαθ᾽ ὑμέναιον ἀοιδαῖς ἰαχαῖς τε νύμφαν sound aloud the bridal hymn in honour of the bride, ib.335 (lyr.); “ἔλεγον ἰήϊον ἐβόα κίθαρις” E.Hyps. Fr.3(1).iii 10.
4. noise abroad, celebrate, ἡ ῥάφανος ἣν ε<*>´βοᾶτε Alex. 15.7; “πρήγματα βεβωμένα ἀνὰ Ἰωνίην” Hdt.3.39; “ἐβώσθησαν ἀνὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα” Id.6.131; “οἱ βοηθέντες ἐπὶ χρήμασι” Lib.Or.59.155; βεβοῆσθαι ἀπὸ τοῦ Μαραθῶνος, ἐκ τῶν ἀδικημάτων, Id.Decl.11.18, 5.53.
5. c. inf., cry aloud or command in aloud noice to do a thing, S.OT1287, E.Andr.297 (lyr.); “βοᾶν τινι ἄγειν” X.An.1.8.12; ἐβόων ἀλλήλοις μὴ θεῖν ib.19; also, cry aloud that . . , Epicrat.11.31(anap.); β. ὅτι . . X. An.1.8.1, Antiph.125.5.
6. Pass., to be filled with sound, “πᾶσαν δὲ χρὴ γαῖαν βοᾶσθαι ὑμνῳδίαις” E.Hel.1434; to be deafened, Ar.V. 1228. (Cf. βοή.）
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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