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ἐκκρεμ-άννυ_μι , fut. -κρεμάσω,
A.hang from or upon a thing, Hp.Art.22 (dub.) ; “τι ἔκ τινος” Ar.Eq.1363 ; “λίθον τοῦ ποδός” AP11.100 (Lucill.) ; “τινὰ ἐξ Ὀλύμπου” Apollod.1.3.5.
II. Pass., like ἐκκρέμαμαι, hang on by, cling to, c. gen., “τῶν τε ξυσκήνων ἤδη ἀπιόντων ἐκκρεμαννύμενοι” Th.7.75, cf. Luc.Tox.6.
2. metaph., to be devoted to, “Ἄρεος” E. El.950.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (6):
    • Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library, 1.3.5
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 1363
    • Euripides, Electra, 950
    • Thucydides, Histories, 7.75
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 22
    • Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, 6
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