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μηκύν-ω , Dor. μα_κ- Pi. (v. infr.): fut. -
A.“υ^νῶ” Th.4.17, Ion. -υ^νέω Hdt.2.35: aor. “ἐμήκυ_να” Id.3.60:—Med., v. infr. 7:—Pass., pf. “μεμήκυσμαι” Phld. (v. infr.), Eust.ad D.P.64:— lengthen, prolong, Hp.Aph.1.12; “τὸ μέτωπον τῆς τάξεως” X.Eq.Mag.4.9; “τὰς ὁδούς” Id.Mem.3.13.5; “μηκυνθέν τε καὶ σχὸν πλάτος” Pl.Plt.282e; of Time, μ. χρόνον, βίον, E.HF87, 143:—Pass., “νοσεύματα μηκυνθέντα” Hp.Aër.7; “ἐμηκύνετο ὁ πόλεμος” Th.1.102.
2. delay, put off, “τέλος” Pi. P.4.286.
3. μ. λόγον, λόγους, spin out a speech, speak at length, Hdt. 2.35, S.El.1484; “τέκν᾽ εἰ φανέντ᾽ ἄελπτα μηκύνω λόγον” Id.OC1120; “τὴν ἀπολογίαν” Isoc.11.44; “λόγους μακροτέρους” Th.4.17: without λόγον, to be lengthy or tedious, Hdt.3.60, Ar.Lys.1132, Pl.R.437a, D.H. Comp.23; μ. περί τινος enlarge upon . . , Demetr.Eloc.71: acc. objecti, μ. τὰ περὶ τῆς πόλεως, τὴν ὠφελίαν, talk at length about, dwell upon . . , Th.2.42,43:—Pass., to be expounded at length, “αὖθις ταῦτα μηκυνθήσεται” Epicur.Nat.14.5; “μεμηκυσμένον σύγγραμμα” Phld.Po.5.26; to be continually repeated, D.H.Comp.12; to be dwelt upon, Demetr.Eloc.137.
4. μ. βοήν raise a loud cry, S.OC489.
5. Gramm., lengthen a syllable, Str.10.5.8:—Pass., D.H.Comp.15, Plu.2.275f, A.D.Adv.146.18; φωνῆεν μηκυνόμενον a vowel capable of being scanned long, as αιυ, Heph.1.4.
6. Arith., multiply by a fresh factor, Theol.Ar.24,48.
7. Med., ἐμακύναντο κολοσσόν reared a tall statue, AP6.171.
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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