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ἐπιρρέπ-ω ,
A.lean towards, ὄφρα . . ἡμῖν δ᾽ αἰπὺς ὄλεθρος ἐπιρρέπῃ, metaph. from the balance, Il.14.99: hence, generally, fall to one's lot, [“ὑμέναιος] ἐ. γαμβροῖσιν ἀείδειν” A.Ag.707 (lyr.): abs., ib.1042.
2.. metaph., incline, “πρὸς ἔλεον” Ph.2.582.
II.. trans., ἐ. τάλαντον force down one scale, Thgn.157.
2.. weigh out to one, allot, esp. of ill fortune, “ἐ. μῆνιν πόλει” A.Eu.888; Δίκα τοῖς “παθοῦσι μαθεῖν ἐπιρρέπει” Id.Ag.251 (lyr.).
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, Agamemnon, 1042
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 251
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 707
    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 888
    • Homer, Iliad, 14.99
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