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ἐρεείνω , (ἐρέω A)
A.ask, inquire : c. acc. pers., ask of one, question him, Od.7.31,5.85, h.Merc.487, etc. : c. acc. rei, ask about a thing, Il.6.145, etc. : c. dupl.acc., “ἐ. τινά τι” Od.1.220, 4.137 ; ἐ. ἀμφὶ ξείνῳ ask about one, 24.262:—Med., “ἐρεείνετο μύθῳ” 17.305 ; search after, “ἐρεείνειν τινά” Batr.52.
2. visit a place, D.P.713.
3. ask for, τι h.Merc. 533.
II. say, speak, ib.313. —Ep. word, used in hex. by Theopomp. Com.30 ; ἐὰν μὴ μεῖζον ἅτερος θατέρου ἐρεείνῃ, Spartan saying in Plu. 2.228e codd. (“ἐρατέημεν” Id.Lyc.19 codd. : leg. μέσδων..ἐρᾶτε ἦμεν.）
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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    • Homer, Iliad, 6.145
    • Homer, Odyssey, 17.305
    • Homer, Odyssey, 1.220
    • Homer, Odyssey, 4.137
    • Homer, Odyssey, 5.85
    • Homer, Odyssey, 7.31
    • Homer, Odyssey, 24.262
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 30
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 313
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 487
    • Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 533
    • Plutarch, Lycurgus, 19
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