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ἐφυμν-έω ,
A.sing or chant at or after, “οὐ γὰρ ὡς φυγῇ παιᾶν᾽ ἐφύμνουν” A.Pers.393; chant or utter over, τί οὖν μ᾽ ἄνωγας τῇδ᾽ ἐφυμνῆσαι χθονί; Id.Eu.902, cf. Ch.386 (lyr.); “κακὰς πράξεις ἐφυμνήσασα τῷ παιδοκτόνῳ” S.Ant.1305; “τὸ πάτριον μέλος ἐ.” Pl.Lg.947c, cf. Smp.197e; later of orations, etc., “ἐ. τῇ θυσίᾳ” Philostr.VS1.25.3; τίνι μύθων φῆμαι θαυμαστότερα ἐφύμνησαν; Aristid.Or.22 (19).2:—Pass., Pl.Lg.799a; [“ἐπῳδὸν] ἐφυμνεῖσθαι καλόν” Ph.1.312.
2. of music, sound in accord, “ἐφυμνεῖ πηκτίδος συγχορδίᾳ” S.Fr.412.
II. sing a dirge or mournful strain, Id.OT1275.
III. sing of, descant on, “Δία” Id.Ant. 658.
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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