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λυ?μ-η , ἡ,
A.outrage, maltreatment, esp. by maiming, ἐπὶ λύμῃ for the sake of insult, Hdt.2.121. “δ́; δόμων ἐπὶ λύμῃ” A.Th. 880 (lyr.); “ὑπ᾽ ἄφρονι λύμᾳ” Id.Eu.377 (lyr.); “ἄνδρα οὕτω αἰσχρῶς λύμῃ διακείμενον” Hdt.2.162; “ὧν διαφθειρομένων οὐκ ἂν γίγνοιτο μεγάλη λ. τῇ πόλει” Pl.Lg.919c; “λ. καρπῶν καὶ προβάτων” X.Oec.5.6; χωρὶς τῆς ἄλλης λύμης besides the mischief done, Hp.Fract.3: freq. in pl., outrages, indignities, “λυμαίνεσθαι λύμῃσι” Hdt.6.12; “χερσὶ καὶ λύμαισι καὶ πᾶσιν κακοῖς” S.El.1196, cf. 1195; “φθείρειν λύμαις ἐχθίσταις” Ar.Av. 1068; “ταῖσδ᾽ ἀδαμαντοδέτοισι λύμαις” A.Pr.148 (lyr.), cf. 427 (lyr.); “ἐπὶ ταῖς ἐρεθιζούσαις τὸν νουθετούμενον λύμαις” Phld.Lib.p.8 O.
II. corruption, “καθάπερ σιδήρῳ μὲν ἰός, ξύλοις δὲ θρῖπες . . συμφυεῖς εἰσι λῦμαι” Plb.6.10.3.
III. damage in financial sense, “πρὸς λύμην τῶν βασιλικῶν φόρων” PMasp.2 iii 18 (vi A. D.), cf. 4.16 (vi A. D.); injury from disease, Ruf.Fr.64.
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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    • Aeschylus, Eumenides, 377
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    • Xenophon, Economics, 5.6
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