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μῖσος , εος, τό,
A.hate, hatred:
I. Pass., hate borne one, A.Ag. 1413, etc.; “μ. ἐμποιεῖν” Pl.R.351d; μ. ἔχειν πρός τινος incur a man's hatred, Id.Lg.691d; “μ. φέρεσθαι” And.2.9.
2. Act., hate felt against another, grudge, “τὸ Τροίας μ. ἀναφέρων πατρί” E.Or.432, cf. Th.4.128; “μῖσος ἐντέτηκέ μοι” S.El.1311, cf. Pl.Mx.245d; “ἔχθρα καὶ μ. ἀλλήλων” X.Mem.3.5.17; “μισεῖν τινα μῖσος ἐξαίσιον” Aristaenet.1.22.
II. of persons, hateful object, = μίσημα, A.Ag.1411 (lyr.), S.Ant.760; esp. in addresses, “ὦ μῖσος” Id.Ph.991, E.Med.1323.
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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