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λεπτύν-ω , fut. -
A.“υ^νῶ” LXX Ps.17(18).42: aor. 1 “ἐλέπτυνα” Hp.Epid. 6.1.5:—Pass., aor. “ἐλεπτύνθην” Id.Aph.5.46: pf. “λελέπτυσμαι” Id.Morb.1.19, Arist.HA511b22; inf. “λελεπτύνθαι” Ath.12.552e: (λεπτός): —make thin or meagre, αἱ ταλαιπωρίαι λ. [τὰ πρόβατα] Arist.HA 596a29, cf. Pr.882a27; λ. τὸ σχῆμα [τῶν ταγμάτων] Plb.3.113.8 (cf. λεπτυσμός）“; φωνὴν βαρεῖαν . . λεπτύνων” Babr.103.5:—Pass., to be reduced, grow lean or slender, Hp.Aph.2.7, Arist.HA518b29, al.; “τοὺς ὤμους λεπτύνεσθαι” X.Smp.2.17; λελεπτυσμένος （-ισμένος cod.) κατὰ τὴν οὐράν, of a serpent, Philum.Ven.18.1; of things, to be rarefied, Damox.2.28, cf. Ph.1.642, S.E.M.10.25.
2. comminute or liquefy food in digestion, Plu.2.689d; -ύνουσα δίαιτα diet productive of thin humours, Gal.Vict.Att.3:—Pass., become fluid, opp. παχύνεσθαι, of foods, Hp.VM19; also -“όμενα εἰς πνεῦμα διακρίνεται” Arist.Pr.966b14.
3. thresh, winnow, “λ. Δηοῦς καρπόν” AP9.21.
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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    • Xenophon, Symposium, 2.17
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.113.8
    • Hippocrates, Aphorismi, 2.7
    • Hippocrates, De prisca medicina, 19
    • Hippocrates, Aphorismi, 5.46
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