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κλον-έω , mostly in pres.: fut. -ήσω Ar.Eq.361:—Pass. also mostly in pres.: fut.
A.κλονήσομαιHp.Genit.2: aor. part. “κλονηθένId.Nat. Puer.30: (κλόνος):—poet. Verb, used also in Ion. and late Prose, as Ph. (v. infr.), Aq.Ge.45.24, al.: Hom. (only in Il.) drive tumultuously or in confusion, “πρὸ ἕθεν κλονέοντα φάλαγγαςIl.5.96; “ὥς τ᾽ ἠὲ βοῶν ἀγέλην πῶϋ μέγ᾽ οἰῶν θῆρε δύω κλονέωσι15.324; of winds, “νέφεα κλονέοντε πάροιθεν23.213, cf. Hes.Op.553; “κλονέων ἄνεμος φλόγα εἰλυφάζειIl.20.492; “ὣς ἔφεπε κλονέων πεδίον11.496, cf. 526; Ἕκτορα δ᾽ ἀσπερχὲς κλονέων ἔφεπ' 22.188; χερὶ κλονέειν τινά, of a pugilist, Pi.I.8(7).70; “εὖτ᾽ ἐν πεδίῳ κλονέων μαίνοιτ᾽ ἈχιλλεύςB.12.118; dub. sens. in Sapph.Supp.19.3: generally, harass, agitate, “καί νιν οὐ θάλπος θεοῦ . . , οὐδὲ πνευμάτων οὐδὲν κλονεῖS.Tr.146; “τόνδε . . ἆται κ.Id.OC1244 (lyr.), cf. Ar.Eq.361; “πάθη κ. τὴν ψυχήνPh.1.589; in physical sense, “βῆχες κ. τὸν θώρηκαAret.CA1.10:—Pass., to be agitated, Hp. ll.cc., Morb.4.55.
2. abs., of the winds, rage, D.P. 464.
2. abs., to be beaten by the waves, “ἀκτὰ κυματοπλὴξ κλονεῖταιS.OC1241 (lyr.); παρὰ δ᾽ ἰχθύες ἐκλονέοντο beside the fishes tumbled, Hes.Sc. 317; of bees, swarm, “βομβηδὸν κ.A.R.2.133: metaph., “κ. οἰκουμένηPh.1.298; to be shaken in credit, refuted, “τὸ κεκλονημένον ῥῆμαPorph.Chr.35.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (20):
    • Aristophanes, Knights, 361
    • Bacchylides, Epinicians, 12.118
    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 317
    • Hesiod, Works and Days, 553
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.148
    • Homer, Iliad, 11.496
    • Homer, Iliad, 14.59
    • Homer, Iliad, 15.324
    • Homer, Iliad, 20.492
    • Homer, Iliad, 22.188
    • Homer, Iliad, 23.213
    • Homer, Iliad, 4.302
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.93
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.96
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1241
    • Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 1244
    • Sophocles, Trachiniae, 146
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.133
    • Aretaeus, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo, 1.10
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 2.44
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