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κίνδυν-ος , ὁ, heterocl. dat. κίνδυ_νι (as if from κίνδυν) Alc.138, cf. Sapph.161:—
A.danger, hazard, venture, whether abstract or concrete, “πᾶσίν τοι κ. ἐπ᾽ ἔργμασιν” Thgn.585, cf. 637; “ὁ μέγας κ. ἄναλκιν οὐ φῶτα λαμβάνει” Pi.O.1.81; κ. γαλέης danger of or from her, Batr.9; “κ. ἀϋτᾶς” Pi. N.9.35; “τὸν κ. τῆς μάχης” Th.2.71; κίνδυνον ἀναρριπτέειν to run a risk, Hdt.7.50, etc.; “ῥῖψαι” E.Rh.154; “κἀνὰ κίνδυνον βαλῶ” A.Th.1033; κίνδυνον ἀναλαβέσθαι, ὑποδύεσθαι, Hdt.3.69, X.Cyr.1.5.12; αἴρεσθαι, ἄρασθαι, ἀρεῖσθαι, E.Heracl.504, Antipho 5.63, And.1.11; ξυνάρασθαι Th.l.c.; “ἐγχειρίσασθαι” Id.5.108, etc.; “ὑπομεῖναι” X.Cyr.1.2.1; “μετὰ τοῦ δικαίου ποιούμενος τοὺς κ.” Isoc.14.42; “κινδύνῳ περιπίπτειν” Th.8.27; ἐν κινδύνῳ αἰωρεῖσθαι, εἶναι, Id.7.77, Antipho 5.7; “ἐπὶ κινδύνους χωρεῖν” Th.2.39; “πρὸς αὐθαιρέτους κ. ἰέναι” Id.8.27; “ἐς κ. ἐμβαίνειν” X. Cyr.2.1.15; “ἐς κ. καταστῆσαί τινα” Th.5.99; “κινδύνῳ βάλλειν τινά” A. Th.1053; “τὸν ἐπιόντα κίνδυνον” Aeschin.3.148; τοὺς ἐπιφερομένους ἑαυτῷ κ. ib.163; “τὸν κατειληφότα κ. τὴν πόλιν” D.18.220; “οὐ περὶ τῶν ἴσων ὁ κ.” X.HG7.1.7; “ἔνι κ. ἐν τῷ πράγματι” Ar.Pl.348; κ. [ἐστι] c. inf., Pi.N.8.21, Lys.13.27, Pl.Cra.436b, etc.; “πόλιν κ. ἔσχε πεσεῖν” E.Hec.5; “κ. ἀσφαλέστερος” Antipho 2.2.9; “κ. ἀνθρώπινοι . . , θεῖοι” And. 1.139; ἐπὶ τῷ αὑτοῦ κ. at his own risk, Arist.Pol.1286a14; “ἰδίῳ ἡμῶν κ.” PLond.2.356.4 (i A.D.); “καθαρὸς ἀπὸ παντὸς κ.” PIand.35.10 (ii/iii A.D.).
2. trial, venture, “κ. ἀνεῖται σοφίας” Ar.Nu.955.
3. battle, Plb.1.87.10, etc.
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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