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κολάζω , fut.
A.“κολάσω” And.1.136, Lys.31.29, X.Cyr.7.5.8, Pl.Lg. 714d, etc.: aor. “ἐκόλασα” Ar.V.927, Th.3.40:—Med., fut. “κολάσομαι” Theopomp.Com.27, X.HG1.7.19; twice contr. in Ar., 2sg. “κολᾷ” Eq.456, part. “κολωμένους” V.244: aor. “ἐκολασάμην” Th.6.78, Pl.Mx. 240d:—Pass., fut. -ασθήσομαι Th.2.87, etc.: aor. “ἐκολάσθην” Id.7.68: pf. “κεκόλασμαι” Antipho 3.4.8, D.20.139:—check, chastise, “τὰς ἐπιθυμίας” Pl.Grg.491e; “τὸ πλεονάζον” Plu.2.663e, etc.; “τὴν ἀμετρίαν” Gal.6.29:—Pass., to be corrected, “τὸ ἐν μέλιτι χολῶδες -άζεται” Hp. Acut.59, cf. X.Oec.20.12: pf. part. Pass., chastened, εὐπειθὲς καὶ κεκολ. Arist.EN1119b12; “δίαιτα” Luc.Herm.86; ῥήτωρ κεκ. Poll.6.149; “ἰσχὺς κ. ἐς ῥυθμούς” Philostr.VS1.17.3; also of an athlete, ἀπέριττος τὰ μυώδη καὶ μὴ κεκ. Id.Gym.31.
2. chastise, punish, τινα E.Ba.1322, Ar.Nu.7, etc.; τὰ σέμν᾽ ἔπη κόλαζ᾽ ἐκείνους use your proud words in reproving them, S.Aj.1108: c. dat. modi, λόγοις κ. τινά ib.1160; “θανάτῳ” E.Hel.1172, Lys.28.3; πληγαῖς, τιμωρίαις, Pl. Lg.784d, Isoc.1.50; “ἀτιμίαις” Pl.Plt.309a:—Med., get a person punished, Ar.V.406, Pl.Prt.324c, v.l. X.Cyr.1.2.7:—Pass., to be punished, etc., Antipho 3.3.7, X.Cyr.5.2.1, etc.; of divine retribution, Plu.2.566e; suffer injury, Ael.NA3.24.
3. of a drastic method of checking the growth of the almond-tree, Thphr.HP2.7.6:—Pass., Id.CP1.18.9; cf. “κόλασις” 1.
4. Pass. c. gen., to be badly in need of, PFay.120.5 (i/ii A.D.), cf. 115.19 (ii A.D.), BGU249.4 (ii A.D.).
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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