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ἐπορέγω ,
A.hold out to, give yet more, “εἴ περ ἂν..Ζεὺς ἐπὶ Τυδεΐδῃ Διομήδεϊ κῦδος ὀρέξῃ” Il.5.225:—Med., “τιμῆς οὔτ᾽ ἀφελὼν οὔτ᾽ ἐπορεξάμενος” Sol.5.2.
2. metaph., “[τὸ θεῖόν] τισιν ἐ. τὰς μεταδόσεις τῆς ὑπερπλήρους ἀγαθότητος” Procl.Inst.131.
II. Med., stretch oneself towards, once in Hom., ἐπορεξάμενος reaching forward to strike, Il.5.335 ; χειρί τινος ἐ. reach at a thing, A.R.1.1313 ; “οὗ παλάμῃ ἐπορέχθην” Matro Conv.70 ; also “χεῖράς τινι ἐ.” A.R.2.1212 ; “ἐ. πρός τι” Hp. Epid.7.11 : abs., ib.7.5.
2. ἐ. τινός yearn for it, “ἀλλοίων ἐ.” Emp. 110.6, cf. Pl.R.437c, Tht.186a.
3. rise in one's demands, Hdt. 9.34.
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 (7):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 9.34
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.225
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.335
    • Plato, Republic, 437c
    • Plato, Theaetetus, 186a
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1.1313
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.1212
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