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ὁρμέω , (ὅρμος II)
A.to be moored, lie at anchor, of a ship, “ἐν Ἐλαιοῦντι” Hdt.7.22 ; πρὸς γῇ ib.188 ; “ἀκταῖσιν” E.Or.55 ; “ἐν λιμένι” Th.1.52 ; opp. μετέωρος ὁ., Id.4.26 ; “οὗ ναῦς ὁρμεῖ” E.IT1043 ; “ἐνταῦθα” D.35.29; “κατὰ τὴν Κύρου σκηνήν” X.An.1.4.3:—Med., “πρόκροσσαι ὁρμέοντο ἐς πόντον” moored themselves, came to anchor, Hdt.7.188 codd. (ὅρμεον τὸ is prob. cj.).
II. prov. phrases, ἐπὶ δυοῖν ἀγκύραιν ὁ., etc., v. ἄγκυρα: metaph., “ἐπὶ σμικροῖς μέγας ὁ.” S.OC148 (anap.); “ἐπὶ τῆς ἐκείνων ἀρετῆς ὁ.” Aristid.1.134 J. ; “ἐπὶ τῆς ποιητικῆς δυνάμεως” Luc.Dem. Enc.18.
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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    • Demosthenes, Against Lacritus, 29
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