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κοπ-ιάω , fut. -άσω [α_]: aor.
A.“ἐκοπία_σα” Men.Phasm.36: pf. “κεκοπία_κα” Apoc.2.3: (κόπος):—to be tired, grow weary, Ar.Th.795, Fr.318.8, LXX De.25.18, al.; “κ. τὰ σκέλη” Alex.147, Men.l.c.; κ. ὑπὸ ἀγαθῶν to be weary of good things, Ar.Av.735; “ἐκ τῆς ὁδοιπορίας” Ev.Jo.4.6; “τῇ διανοίᾳ” Erasistr. ap. Gal. Consuet.1: c. part., “κ. ὀρχούμενοι” Ar.Fr.602; “ζῶν” AP12.46 (Asclep.); “μὴ κοπιάτω φιλοσοφῶν” Epicur.Ep.3p.59U., cf. Plu.2.185e: aor. part. κοπιάσας, defunctus laboribus, IG14.1811:—Med. in act. sense, Arist. Pr.881a14.
II. work hard, toil, Ev.Matt.6.28, etc.; “μεθ᾽ ἡδονῆς κ.” Vett.Val.266.6; “εἴς τι” 1 Ep.Ti.4.10, cf. Ep.Rom.16.6; “ἔν τινι” 1 Ep.Ti.5.17; “ἐπί τι” LXX Jo.24.13: c. inf., strive, struggle, “μὴ κοπία ζητεῖν” Lyr.Alex.Adesp.37.7.
III. = κοπάζω, come to rest: arrive at a state of saturation, PLeid.X.30 (iii/iv 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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