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λυ_μ-αίνομαι (B), fut.
A.“λυ_μα^νοῦμαι” Isoc.11.49, D.24.1, etc.: aor. “ἐλυ_μηνάμην” Hp.VM20 (v.l. -αίνετο), Hdt.8.28, E.Andr.719, Isoc.20.12, etc.: also with pass. forms, part. “λυμανθέν” A.Ch.290: pf. λελύμασμαι (3sg. “λελύμανται” D.9.36, 21.173); part. -ασμένος X.HG7.5.18, D.45.27; inf. “λελυμάνθαι” Id.20.142, PPetr.3p.57 (iii B. C.): cf. διαλυμαίνομαι: some of these forms are also used in pass. sense, v. infr. 11: (λύμη):—outrage, maltreat, esp. of personal injuries, scourging, binding, etc. (cf. D.23.33), but also in moral sense:—Constr.:
1. c. acc., outrage, maltreat, “ὅτι τὸν ξεῖνον . . δήσας λυμαίνοιτο” Hdt.5.33; “τὴν ἵππον ἐλυμήναντο ἀνηκέστως” Id.8.28; “ὀργῇ χάριν δούς, ἥ σ᾽ ἀεὶ λυμαίνεται” S.OC855; λ. λέχη dishonour . . , E.Ba.354: c. acc. cogn. added, “τοιαῦτα . . Σοφοκλέης λυμαίνεται . . ἐμὲ τὸν Τηρέα” Ar.Av.100; “λύμης ἥν μ᾽ ἐλυμήνω πάρος” E.Hel.1099; also in Att. Prose, “λ. νόμους” Lys.30. 26, cf. D.18.312; τὰς ῥήσεις ἃς ἐλυμαίνου the speeches you used to murder (as an actor), ib.267; later simply, harm, injure, “βλασφημεῖν καὶ -εσθαι τὸν σοφόν” Phld.Lib.p.10 O., cf. Ir.p.33 W.; of things, spoil, ruin, “νοῦσος λ. τὸ σῶμα” Hp.Morb.Sacr.11, cf. VM6; “τὰ -όμενα γαστέρας καὶ κεφαλὰς καὶ ψυχάς” X.Mem.1.3.6; ὀψοποιΐα λ. τὰ ὄψα ib.3.14.5; “λ. τὴν οἰκίαν” Is.6.18; “τοὺς χυλούς” Thphr.CP6.17.5; “τὰ παρόντα” Epicur. Sent.Vat.35; “θλίβει καὶ λ. τὸ μακάριον” Arist.EN1100b28; λ. τοῦ ἀραχνίου spoil part of it, Id.HA623a20.
2. c. dat., inflict indignities or outrages upon, “νεκρῷ” Hdt.1.214,9.79; “μειρακίοις” Ar.Nu. 928 (anap.); “ἡ ὕβρις τοῖς ὅλοις πράγμασι λ.” Isoc.20.9; “ἡ κακία λ. τοῖς ὅλοις” D.18.303; “λ. τῇ καταστάσει” X.HG2.3.26; τῇ ἑαυτοῦ δόξῃ ib.7.5.18; “πονηροὶ . . αὑτοῖς -αίνονται” Epicur.Sent.Vat.53; “τοῖς . . προῃρημένοις” POxy.1409.21 (iii A. D.).—The constr. with dat. is considered strictly Att., Sch.Ar.Nu.925; but X. almost always uses the acc., which is freq. also in the Oratt.; Pl. does not use the word at all.
3. abs., cause ruin, “ὅσα μετ᾽ ἐλπίδων λυμαίνεται” Th.5.103; “πᾶν τὸ λυμαινόμενόν ἐστιν ἔνδοθεν” Men.540.3; cause damage, IG5(2).6.16 (Tegea, iv B. C.); also, inflict punishment, ib. 5 (1). 1390.26 (Andania, i B. C.).
4. c. dat. modi, λυμαίνεσθαι [τινα] λύμῃσι ἀνηκέστοισι treat with the worst ill-treatment, Hdt.6.12; γλῶτταν ἡδοναῖς λ. defile it, Ar.Eq.1284.
5. c. neut. Adj., τἆλλα πάντα λυμαίνεσθαι inflict all possible indignities, Hdt.3.16; “αὐτῷ τάδ᾽ ἄλλα Βάκχιος λ.” E.Ba.632 (troch.), cf. Ar.Av.100 (supr.1.1).
II. Act. λυμαίνω, only late, Lib. Decl.13.6; but λυμαίνομαι is sts. Pass., “δεδεμένος καὶ -όμενος” Antipho 5.63; “ὑπὸ τοιούτων ἀνδρῶν λυμαίνεσθε” Lys.28.14; “πλάστιγγι λυμανθὲν δέμας” A.Ch.290; “λελυμάνθαι” D.20.142; “λελυμασμένος” Paus.7.5.4, 10.15.4; “ἐλελύμαντο” D.C.39.11; cf. “διαλυμαίνομαι” 11.
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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