A.“ὤφελλε” Od.16.174, ὄφελλε（ν) Il. 2.420, Theoc.25.120 (unless these are impf.); aor. subj. 3pl. ὀφέλλωσιν Il.1.510; aor. opt. “ὀφέλλειεν” 16.651, Od.2.334:—old Ep. Verb, increase, enlarge, strengthen, “στόνον” Il.4.445; “πόνον” 16.651, Od.2.334; “ἀνδρὸς ἐρωήν” Il.3.62; “δέμας δ᾽ ὤφελλε καὶ ἥβην” Od.16.174; ἲς ἀνέμου . . κύματ᾽ ὀφέλλει the force of the wind raises high the waves, Il.15.383; μῦθον ὀ. multiply words, 16.631; ὕβριν ὀ. add to insult, Hes.Op.213; πόλεμον καὶ δῆριν ὀ. ib.14, cf. 33; ὄφρ᾽ ἂν Ἀχαιοὶ υἱὸν ἐμὸν τίσωσιν, ὀφέλλωσίν τέ ἑ τιμῇ advance him in honour, Il.1.510; οἶκον ὀ. advance it, make it thrive, Od.15.21, Hes.Op.495 (hence οἰκωφελίη）; πεδίον σὺν θεῶν τιμαῖς ὀ. Pi.P.4.260:—Pass., οἶκος ὀφέλλετο it waxed great, prospered, Od.14.233; “ὀφέλλετο γὰρ μένος ἠῢ ἵππου” Il.23.524; “λήϊον . . ὀφελλόμενον Διὸς ὄμβρῳ” Theoc.17.78; “τὰ τῶν θύραθεν . . ὀφέλλεται” A.Th.103; ἀραγμὸς ἐν πύλαις ὀφέλλεται increases, waxes louder, ib.249. (Dialectal word acc. to Pl.Cra.417c.)
ὀφέλλω (B), Aeol. aor. ind. 3sg.
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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