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ἐπιμύω , pf.
A.“-μέμυ_κα” Sor.2.27:—close the eyes, “τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς” D.S. 1.48; “τὰ βλέφαρα” Aret.SA1.5; “ὄμματα” Opp.H.2.110: abs., close the eyes, Plb.4.27.7, Theoc.21.4 (cj.), Alex.Aphr.in Sens.17.14: metaph., die, Call.Epigr..41.5.
2.. wink at, in token of assent, Ar.V.934.
II.. intr., close over, τὰ βλέφαρα τοῖσι ὀφθαλμοῖσι ἐπιμύει close over the eyes, Aret.CA1.6, cf. SA1.5, Sor.l.c.; close up, of wounds, Opp.C. 2.290; “ταχὺ τὸν ὄγκον ἐπιμύειν” Onos.19.3; ἐπι_μύοντας ὀλόσχους, prob.l. for ἐπημ-, Nic. Th.870, cf. Sch. ad loc.
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):
    • Aristophanes, Wasps, 934
    • Polybius, Histories, 4.27.7
    • Aretaeus, De causis et signis acutorum morborum (lib. 1), 1.5
    • Aretaeus, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo, 1.6
    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 1.48
    • Onasander, Strategicus, 19.3
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