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ἐμέω Il.15.11, impf.
A.“ἤμουν” Ar.Fr.351, X.An.4.8.20, Ion. “ἤμεον” Hdt.7.88: fut. “ἐμέσω” Hp.Morb.2.15, Att. ἐμῶ （ἐνεξ-) Polyzel.4: fut. Med. “ἐμέομαι” Hp.Nat.Hom.5, “ἐμοῦμαι” A.Eu.730: aor. “ἤμεσα” Hp. Epid.1.26.έ, etc., (ἐξ-) Ar.Ach.6, inf. “ἐμέσαι” Hdt.1.133; Ep. ἔμεσσα （ἀπ-) Il.14.437 (prob. ἐξήμεσσα should be restored for -ήμησα in Hes. Th.497; ὑπερ-έμησα occurs in the Mss. of Hp.Morb.2.17): pf. “ἐμήμεκα” Luc.Lex.21, Ael.NA17.37: plpf. “ἐμημέκεε” Hp.Epid.5.42, “ἐμημέκει” D.L.6.7:—Pass., fut. ἐμεθήσομαι （ἐξ-) LXXJb.20.15: aor. inf. “ἐμεθῆναι” Gal.7.219: pf. “ἐμήμεσμαι” Ael.VH13.22:—vomit, throw up, “αἷμ᾽ ἐμέων” Il.15.11, cf. Hdt.7.88; “ἐμοῦσα θρόμβους” A.Eu.184; ἰόν ib. 730: abs., vomit, be sick, Hdt.1.133, X.An.4.8.20; “ἐμέειν ἀπὸ συρμαϊσμοῦ” Hp.Art.40; ἐ. πτίλῳ to make oneself sick with a feather, Ar. Ach.587.
2. metaph., throw up a flood of words, Eun.VSp.488 B. (ϝεμε-, cf. Skt. vámiti 'vomit', Lat. vomo, vomitus, Lith. vémti, etc.)
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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    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 184
    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 730
    • Herodotus, Histories, 1.133
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.88
    • Hesiod, Theogony, 497
    • Homer, Iliad, 14.437
    • Homer, Iliad, 15.11
    • Xenophon, Anabasis, 4.8.20
    • Aristophanes, Acharnians, 587
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    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 40
    • Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum, 6.7
    • Old Testament, Job, 20.15
    • Lucian, Lexiphanes, 21
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 17.37
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 13.22
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