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ξαίνω , fut.
A.“ξα^νῶ” Ar.Av.827 : aor. “ἔξηνα” E.Or.12 :—Pass., aor. ἐξάνθην (v. infr.) : pf. ἔξασμαι (κατ-) Hp.Ulc.24, (ἀν-) Gal. ap. Orib. 51.57.3, “ἔξαμμαι” Thphr.CP3.23.2, Gp.3.1.7, (κατ-) D.S.17.71 :— scratch, comb, esp. of wool, card, “εἴριά τε ξαίνειν” Od.22.423 ; στέμματα ξ., of Fate, E.l.c.: abs., dress wool, Trag.Adesp.9, Ar.Lys.536, Ec.89,92, Pl.Sph.226b, etc.: c. gen. partit., “τῶν ἐρίων ξ.” Ar.Fr.717, Crates Theb.3 : metaph., “ξ. εὔνοιαν εἰς καλαθίσκον” Ar.Lys.579 ; ξ. εἰς πῦρ, prov. of labour in vain, Pl.Lg.780c.
2. of cloth, full, dress it, “ξ. τὸν πέπλον” Ar.Av.l.c.
II. metaph., thresh, ἡνίκ᾽ ἂν ξανθῇ στάχυς dub. in A.Fr.304.7 (leg. ἡνίκ᾽ ἐξανθῇ); fret, mangle, of waves, “ξανθὲν ὑπὸ σπιλάδι” AP6.223 (Antip.), cf. 23 ; ὕδωρ ξαινόμενον fretted into foam, A.R.4.1266 ; of bodies, mangle, lacerate, “ξαινόμενος περὶ τῇ γῇ” D.H.3.30 ; esp. of flogging, ξ. τὸ σῶμα μάστιξι ibid. ; “ῥάβδοις ἔξαινον τὰ σώματα” Plu.Publ.6, cf.Ach.Tat.6.20 (Pass.) : c. acc. cogn., ξ. κατὰ τοῦ νώτου πολλὰς (sc. πληγάς) D.19.197 ; “μελεϊστὶ ξ.” Philostr.Her.19.18 ; also “ξαίνουσα παρειὰς δάκρυσιν” AP7.464 (Antip.) ; of the throat, in Pass., to be irritated, sore, Antyll. ap. Orib.10.34.8 ; of the mind, fret, worry, “ξαίνεσθαι τὴν ψυχὴν φροντίδι” J.AJ1.1.4.
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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