Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, μεθύσκω

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A.“μεθύσαι” Alex. (v. infr.):—Pass., fut. “μεθυσθήσομαι” LXX Ho.14.8, Luc.Luct.13, D.L. 7.118: aor. “ἐμεθύσθην” Heraclit.117, E.Cyc.167, etc.; Aeol. inf. “μεθύσθην” Alc.35: pf. “μεμέθυσμαι” Hedyl. ap. Ath.4.176d:—Causal of μεθύω, make drunk, intoxicate, “Διόνυσος οἶδε τὸ μεθύσαι μόνον” Alex. 214; “μ. ἑαυτὴν οἴνῳ” Luc.Syr.D.22: metaph., “πάνθ᾽ ὅσα δι᾽ ἡδονῆς μεθύσκοντα παράφρονας ποιεῖ” Pl.Lg.649d; “τὴν αἴσθησιν” Thphr.Od. 46; Ἀθηνᾶ μεθύσασα ὕπνῳ τοὺς βαρβάρους Vett. Val.347.26.

2. give to drink, “θηλὴ μεθύσκει με μητρῴη” Babr.89.9; moisten, βωμοὺς ἐν γάλακτι, τέφρην, AP6.99 (Phil.), 11.8.

II. Pass., = μεθύω, drink freely, get drunk, Alc. l.c., Hdt.1.133, etc.; ὀδμῇ, οἴνῳ, ib.202; “πίνων οὐ μεθύσκεται” X.Cyr.1.3.11: in aor. ἐμεθύσθην, to be drunk, “ἀνὴρ ὁκόταν μεθυσθῇ” Heraclit. l.c.; “ἅπαξ μεθυσθείς” E.Cyc.167, cf. Ar.V.1252; “ἀνθρώπους οἵους μεθυσθέντας” D.2.19: c. gen., νέκταρος with nectar, Pl.Smp.203b: metaph., “ὅταν πόλις [ἐλευθερίας] μεθυσθῇ” Id.R.562d: c. dat., ταῖς ἐξουσίαις with power, D.H.4.74:—in Hp. Steril.218 μεθυσκέτω is corrupt for μεθυσκέσθω.

2. to be filled with food, “μ. σίτῳ” LXX Ho.14.8; cf. μεθύει: πεπλήρωται, Hsch.

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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Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (14):
- Aristophanes, Wasps, 1252
- Demosthenes, Olynthiac 2, 19
- Euripides, Cyclops, 167
- Herodotus, Histories, 1.133
- Plato, Laws, 649d
- Plato, Republic, 562d
- Plato, Symposium, 203b
- Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 1.3.11
- Old Testament, 2 Samuel, 11.13
- Old Testament, Deuteronomy, 32.42
- Old Testament, Hosea, 14.8
- Lucian, De luctu, 13
- Lucian, De Syria dea, 22
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 4.74

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