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δακρύω , first in A.Ch.81: fut.
A.“-ύσω” E.El.658, later “-ύσομαι” Tryph. 404: aor. “ἐδάκρυ_σα” Hdt.1.112, etc., Ep. “δάκρυ_σα” Od.11.55: pf. “δεδάκρυ_κα” Alciphr.2.3.14:—Med., “δακρύεσθαι” A.Th.815: aor. “δακρύσατο” Tryph.431:—Pass., pres., E.Hel.1226: pf. “δεδάκρυ_μαι” Il.16.7, etc.: [υ long in all tenses, except in late Poets, as AP9.148]: (for the Root, v. δάκρυ).
I. intr., weep, shed tears, Od. l.c., etc.: c. acc. cogn., δ. γόους to lament with tears, S.Aj.580: c. gen. causae, “δ. συμφορᾶς” E.HF528 (dub. l.); δ. βλέφαρα to flood them with tears, Id.Hel.948; “δ. χαρᾷ” X.HG7.2.9; “ἐπὶ ταῖς συμφοραῖς” Isoc.4.168:— Pass., pf. δεδάκρυμαι to be in tears, “τίπτε δεδάκρυσαι, Πατρόκλεες;” Il. 16.7; “δεδάκρυνται δὲ παρειαί” 22.491; “δεδακρυμένος” in tears, Pl.Ax. 364b, Plu.Publ.6, etc.
2. of the eyes, run, Arist.HA620a5.
3. of trees, exude gum, Thphr.Fr.121; “ἤλεκτρον δακρύειν” Luc.Salt. 55.
II. c. acc., weep for, “τινά” A.Ag.1490 (lyr.), S.OT1486, Ar. Ach.1027, etc.:—Pass., to be wept for, “συμφορὰ δακρύεται” E.Hel.1226 (prob. Med. in A.Th.815).
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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