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ἐπαν-ίημι ,
A.let loose at, “σοὶ δ᾽ ἐπὶ τοῦτον ἀνῆκε” Il.5.405.
II. let go, give up, c. acc., “ταῦτ᾽ ἐπανέντας” D.2.30; dismiss, “τὸν παρόντ᾽ ἐπανεῖναι φόβον” Id.18.177; remit, “τοῖς νέοις τὰ σκληρότατα τῆς ἀγωγῆς” Plu.Lyc.22; release from, “τὰς κύνας ἐ. τῶν πόνων” X.Cyn.7.1; relax, “τῆς ὀργῆς” Ruf. ap. Orib.6.38.5.
2. relax, τὸν δακτύλιον (v. “δακτύλιος” 11.2) Dsc.Eup.2.56: more freq. intr., relax, leave off, “τέμνων οὐκ ἐπανῆκεν πρὶν . .” Pl.Phdr.266a: abs., of spasms, “σιηγὼν ἐπανῆκε” Hp. Epid.3.17.β᾽; μὴ ἐπανιείς without slackening speed, X.Cyn.4.5; ἐπανῆκεν ὁ σῖτος corn became easier in price, D.32.25; ἐπανέντα lukewarm, opp. θερμά, Sosip.1.53.
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 (8):
    • Demosthenes, Olynthiac 2, 30
    • Demosthenes, On the Crown, 177
    • Demosthenes, Against Zenothemis, 25
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 266a
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 7.1
    • Xenophon, On Hunting, 4.5
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.405
    • Plutarch, Lycurgus, 22
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