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λι_πα^ρ-ής , ές,
A.persisting or persevering in a thing, earnest, indefatigable, “περί τινος” Pl.Cra.413a; περί τι, πρός τι, Id.Hp.Mi.369d, 372b: also c. gen., “παιδείας” Luc.Am.6.
2. of things, “λ. χειρουργία” Ar.Lys.672; “προθυμία” Luc.Abd.4; λ. πυρετός an obstinate fever, Id.Hist.Conscr.1.
II. earnest in begging or praying, importunate, c. part., “λ. ἦσαν δεόμενοι” Plu.TG6; “ἀκοῦσαί τι βουλόμενοι λ. ἦσαν” Id.2.665e; λ. χείρ a hand instant in prayer, S.El.1378: c. gen., fawning upon, “τῶν ἐν ἐξουσίᾳ” Plu.2.776b; τὸ λ. importunity, Luc.Herm.24; πρὸς τὸ λ., = λιπαρῶς, S.OC1119.
III. Adv. -ρῶς earnestly, importunately, Pl.Lg.931c; λ. ἔχων ἀκούειν longing earnestly to hear, Id.Prt.315e; λ. ἔχω γίγνεσθαί τι I am importunate in desiring that . . , ib.335b.
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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