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ἰάπτω (B) [ι^], fut.
A.“-ψω” A.Th.525 (lyr.): aor. “ἴαψα” S.Aj.700(lyr.): —send, drive on, of missiles, send forth, shoot, “τόξοις βέλη εἴς τινα” A. Ag.510; “χερμάδα ἐπί τινι” Id.Th.299(lyr.); πρόσθε πυλᾶν κεφαλὰν ἰ. to throw his head before the gates, i.e. lose it, ib.525(lyr.): metaph., “ἐπιτύμβιον αἶνον ἐπ᾽ ἀνδρὶ θείῳ . . ἰάπτων” Id.Ag.1548(lyr.); μακάρεσσιν ἔπι ψόγον αἰνὸν ἰ. Rhian.1.4; ἰ. ὀρχήματα begin the dance, S.l.c.:— Pass., “ἐπί τινι ἰάπτεται βέλη” A.Th.544.
2. c. acc. objecti, λόγοις ἰάπτειν τινά assail one with words, S.Aj.501.
II. intr. (sc. ἑαυτόν), rush, hurry, A.Supp.547 (lyr.). (Perh. cf. Lat. jacio.）
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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