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κοιμ-άω , fut. -ήσω, Dor. -άσω [α_]: aor. ἐκοίμησα, Ep.
A.“κοίμησα” Od. 12.372:—Med., fut. -ήσομαι OGI383.43 (Commagene, i B.C.), D.H. 4.64, Luc.DDeor.4.4, etc.: Ep. aor. κοιμήσατο, -αντο, Il.11.241, 1.476:—Pass., fut. -ηθήσομαι S.Fr.574.6, Luc.Asin.40, Alciphr.1.37.3, etc.: aor. “ἐκοιμήθην” Od.14.411, al., E.Andr.390, Pl.R.571e, etc.: pf. “κεκοίμημαι” Aeschrio 8.2, Luc.Gall.6:—lull, put to sleep, “κοίμησον . . Ζηνὸς ὑπ᾽ ὀφρύσιν ὄσσε φαεινώ” Il.14.236; “ἦ με . . κοιμήσατε νηλέϊ ὕπνῳ” Od.12.372; “βλέφαρα μὴ κοιμῶν ὕπνῳ” A.Th.3; put to bed, “τὸν δ᾽ αὐτοῦ κοίμησε” Od.3.397; of a hind, “ἐν ξυλόχῳ . . νεβροὺς κοιμήσασα” 4.336.
2. metaph., still, calm, ἀνέμους, κύματα, Il.12.281, Od.12.169; “φλόγα” A.Ag.597; “κύματος μένος” Id.Eu.832; “εὔφημον . . κοίμησον στόμα” Id.Ag.1247; also, soothe, assuage, “κοίμησον δ᾽ ὀδύνας” Il.16.524; ᾧ (sc. φύλλῳ）“ κοιμῶ τόδ᾽ ἕλκος” S.Ph.650.
II. Med. and Pass., fall asleep, go to bed, Il.1.476, al., Hdt.1.9, etc.; of animals, lie down, “κατὰ ἤθεα κοιμηθῆναι” Od.14.411: c. acc. cogn., ποῖόν τινα ὕπνον ἐκοιμῶ; X.Hier.6.7; βαθὺν κοιμηθῆναι (sc. ὕπνον) Luc. DMar.2.3.
2. metaph., ὅπως ἂν κοιμηθῇ [τὸ ἐπιθυμητικόν] Pl. l.c.
3. of the sleep of death, “κοιμήσατο χάλκεον ὕπνον” Il.11.241; “ἱερὸν ὕπνον κ.” Call.Ep.11.2: abs., fall asleep, die, S.El.509 (lyr.), Aeschrio l.c.; “ἐκοιμήθη μετὰ τῶν πατέρων” LXX 3 Ki.2.10, al., cf. PFay.22.28 (i A.D.), Ev.Matt.27.52, Ev.Jo.11.11, etc.; in epitaphs, IG14.1683, etc.; κ. τὸν αἰώνιον ὕπνον ib.929.
4. “κοιμῶντο . . παρὰ μνηστῇς ἀλόχοισι” Il.6.246, cf. 250: hence, of sexual intercourse, lie with another, Od.8.295, Pi.I.8(7).23; “οὔ τινι κοιμηθεῖσα” Hes.Th.213; “παρά τινι” Hdt.3.68; “σὺν δεσπόταισι” E. l.c.; “μετά τινος” Timocl.22.2; “ἀπὸ γυναικὸς ἀνὴρ τὰν νύκτα κοιμαθές” Berl.Sitzb. 1927.157 (Cyrene).
5. keep watch at night, A.Ag.2, X.Cyr.1.2.4,9, POxy.933.25 (ii A.D.), etc.
6. of things, remain during the night, “οὐ μὴ κοιμηθήσεται ὁ μισθὸς παρά σοι ἕως πρωί” LXX Le.19.13; ἡ κιβωτὸς ἐκοιμήθη ἐκεῖ ib.Jo.6.10.
7. c. acc., dream of, μέταλλα “χρύσεια” Luc.Gall.6.
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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