Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, λυ^γ-ίζω

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A.“λυγιξεῖν” Theoc.1.97: (λύγος):—bend or twist as one does a withe, πλευρὰν λυγίσαντος ὑπὸ ῥώμης, of a dancer, Ar.V.1487; νεῦρα λελυγισμένα twisted, Hp.Mochl.4; τὰ λυγισθέντα τῶν ἄρθρων twisted joints, Gal.Protr.11; λυγίζειν ἀλλήλους, of wrestlers, Luc.Anach.1, cf. Philostr.Im.2.32: metaph., “λ. μέλος” Ael.NA2.11; cf. λύγισμα, λυγισμός.

2. throw, master, Ἔρωτα Theoc.l.c.:— Pass., to be thrown or mastered, Id.1.98; “οὐδ᾽ ἐλυγίχθη τὰν ψυχάν” Id.23.54.

II. Pass., bend or twist oneself like a withe, bend aside, so as to avoid a blow, “λυγίζεται καὶ συστρέφει τὸν αὐ χένα” Eup.339, cf. Pl. R.405c; “στρέφου λυγίζου τε μύθοις” S.Ichn.362 (lyr.); “ἐλυγίσθησαν κατὰ τροχῶν” Phalar.Ep.147.3; also of dancers, Luc.Salt.77, etc.; “ὑπ᾽ ὀρχησμῶν λελυγισμένον ἴχνος” AP6.33 (Maec.): metaph., in pf. part. λελυγισμένος, effeminate, Anon. ap. Suid. s.v. ἁβρός; ἐπέων κόσμος λελ. AP11.20 (Antip. Thess.).

2. turn, play, as a joint in the socket, “ἄρθρον ᾗ λυγίζεται” S.Tr.779.

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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