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κυ_μ-αίνω , fut. κυμα^νῶ Xuthusap.Arist.Ph.216b25: aor.
A.“ἐκύμηνα” Arr.An.2.10.3: aor. 1 Pass. “ἐκυμάνθην” Plu.Ant.65: (κῦμα):—rise in waves, swell, ἐπὶ πόντον ἐβήσετο κυμαίνοντα over the billowy sea, Il.14.229, cf. Od.4.425,570, etc.; of a pot, boil, Call.Fr.anon.41; “κ. ἄνω καὶ κάτω” Pl.Phd.112b; κυμανεῖ τὸ ὅλον Xuthusl. c.; κ. τῇ πορείᾳ undulate, of caterpillars, Arist.HA551b7; “τὰ ἄποδα . . κυμαίνοντα προέρχεται” Id.IA709a24; of a line of soldiers, Plu.Pomp.69, cf. Arr.An. l.c.
2. metaph., of restless passion, swell, seethe, “κυμαίνοντ᾽ ἔπη” A.Th.443; “ἄνθος ἥβας κυμαίνει” Pi.P.4.158; αἱ ψυχαὶ κ. μειζόνως, with passion, Pl.Lg.930a; “κ. ἐκ τῆς ἐπιθυμίας” Ael.NA7.15; ἐς τὴν ὁμιλίαν ib.15.9.
3. trans., toss on the waves, “τὸ δέπας” Pherecyd.18(a) J.; agitate, “τὴν θάλατταν” Luc.DMar.7.1; “οἴστρῳ κ. θεούς” APl.4.196 (Alc. Mess.):—Pass., to be agitated, “τὸ πέλαγος κ.” Hp.Flat.3, Plu. Ant. l.c., cf. Opp.H.4.676; “πόθῳ” Pi.Fr.123.3; vibrate, Nicom.Harm. 3.
II. (“κῦμα” 11) to swell, to be pregnant, “κ. γαστέρα” Opp.C.1.359; κύστιδα ib.4.443; “μαζοὶ . . γάλα -ουσι” Marc.Sid.91:—Med., “Σεμέλης κυμαίνετο γαστήρ” Nonn.D.8.7.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (11):
    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 443
    • Homer, Iliad, 14.229
    • Homer, Odyssey, 4.425
    • Plato, Laws, 930a
    • Plato, Phaedo, 112b
    • Plutarch, Pompey, 69
    • Plutarch, Antonius, 65
    • Lucian, Dialogi Marini, 7.1
    • Arrian, Anabasis, 2.10.3
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 15.9
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 7.15
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