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εὐνάζω , fut. -άσω [α^] Od.4.408, X.Cyn.9.3; Dor.
A.“εὐνάξω” Pi. (v. infr.): aor. “ηὔνα^σα” E.Rh.762, “εὔνασα” Simon.184.10, A.R.3.1000:— Med.,v.infr.:—Pass., Od.5.65: aor. 1 ηὐνάσθην or εὐν-, Pi.P.3.25, E. Ion17, 1484, (ξυν-) S.OT982; Ep. 3pl. εὔνασθεν （κατ-) Il.3.448: pf. ηὔνασμαι （κατ-) E.Rh.611: (εὐνή):—mostly poet., cf. εὐνάω:
1. lay or place in ambush, “ἔνθα σ᾽ ἐγὼν . . εὐνάσω ἑξείης” Od.4.408.
2. put to bed, put to sleep, “οὔ σε παιηόνων ἄδορπον εὐνάξομεν” Pi.Pae.6.128, cf. A.R.4.1060, etc.; of animals, lay their young in a form, X.Cyn.9.3: metaph., of death, lay asleep, S.OT961, cf. Tr.1042 (lyr.), E.Rh.762; so “βάρβιτον οὐδὲ θανὼν εὔνασεν εἰν Ἀΐδη” Simon. l.c.; calm, soothe, “εὐνάζειν . . βλεφάρων πόθον” S.Tr.106 (lyr.); “χόλον” A.R.3.1000:—Pass., go to bed, sleep, Hom., only in Od., “ἐν προδόμῳ εὐνάζετο δῖος Ὀδυσσεύς” 20.1; “εὐνάζοντο κατὰ μέγαρα” 23.299, cf. Hes.Op.339, etc.; σκληρῶς εὐ. X. Cyn.12.2; also ἔνθα δέ τ᾽ ὄρνιθες . . εὐνάζοντο there they used to roost, Od 5.65; of sexual intercourse, παρ᾽ ἀνδράσιν εὐνάζεσθαι ib.119; so “θεαῖς εὐνάζεται” h.Ven.190; “θεῶ” E.Ion 17; “εὐνάσθη ξένου λέκτροισιν” Pi.P.3.25; “εὐνάσθην ὑπὸ σπαργάνοις” Id.Fr.193; “γάμοις . . βασιλικοῖς εὐνάζεται” E.Med.18; “Φοίβῳ κρυπτόμενον λέχος ηὐνάσθην” Id.Ion1484 (lyr.); of animals, Arist.HA609b23:—so in Med., “κούρῳ παρθένος εὐνάσατο” Call.Aet.3.1.1.
3. give in marriage, “τέκνα” E.Fr.17.
4. of pain, lull, deaden, “τὴν ταλαιπωρίην” Aret.CA2.1:—Pass., “σὺ γάρ μ᾽ ἀπ᾽ εὐνασθέντος ἐκκινεῖς κακοῦ” S.Tr.1242.
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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