Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, καταισχύν-ω

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A.“-αισχυ^νῶ” Id.Th.546:—dishonour, put to shame, “μή τι καταισχύνειν πατέρων γένος” Od.24.508; “καταισχύνητέ τε δαῖτα” 16.293; “τὰ πρόσθε ἐργασμένα” Hdt.7.53, cf. A.Supp.996, D.18.101, etc.; τὴν σὴν οὐ κ. φύσιν I put not thy nature to shame, i.e. show myself not unworthy of thee, S.El.609; “κ. τὸ Τρωϊκὸν κλέος” E.Hel.845; “τὸ γένος οὐ καταισχυνῶ” Ar.Av.1451; “κ. τὴν πατρίδα” Id.Nu.1220; “τοὺς προγόνους” Pl.La.187a; “ὑποσχέσεις” Id.Smp.183e; “τὰς εὐγενείας ταῖς αὑτῶν . . κακίαις” Isoc.7.76, etc.

2. dishonour a woman, “ἀλλοτρίας γυναῖκας” Lys.1.49; also of a male, D.45.79.

3. ὁ μέλλων Χρόνος ἐμὸν καταίσχυνε . . Χρέος covered me with dishonour in that my debt remained unpaid, Pi.O.10(11).8.

4. = καταχέζειν, Χαίτην Babr. 82.8.

II. Med., feel shame before, “θεούς” S.Ph.1382, cf. OT1424: —aor. Pass., “καταισχυνθέντες τὴν ἀρετὴν αὐτῶν” Isoc.4.97: c. inf., to be ashamed to . . , “ἰητρεύειν” Hp.Art.42; καταισχυνθῆναι . . ὅπως μὴ δόξει . . to be ashamed of being thought . . , Th.6.13.

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 (20):
- Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 546
- Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens, 996
- Aristophanes, Birds, 1451
- Demosthenes, On the Crown, 101
- Demosthenes, Against Stephanus 1, 79
- Euripides, Helen, 845
- Herodotus, Histories, 7.53
- Homer, Odyssey, 16.293
- Homer, Odyssey, 24.508
- Isocrates, Panegyricus, 97
- Isocrates, Areopagiticus, 76
- Lysias, On the Murder of Eratosthenes, 49
- Plato, Symposium, 183e
- Plato, Laches, 187a
- Sophocles, Electra, 609
- Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 1424
- Sophocles, Philoctetes, 1382
- Thucydides, Histories, 6.13
- Aristophanes, Clouds, 1220
- Hippocrates, De articulis, 42

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