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ὀφθαλμ-ιάω ,
A.suffer from ophthalmia, Hdt.7.229, Hp.Aph.6.17, Ar.Ra.192, Fr.129, X.HG2.1.3, Pl.Alc.2.139e, Antiph.252.1, etc.
II. metaph., of the pain caused by envy at the sight of other men's prosperity, look longingly, jealously, or covetously, of lovers, Hyp.Fr.258; “ἐπί τινι” Anon. ap. Suid., cf. Plu.2.705d (so beautiful women are called ὀφθαλμῶν ἀλγηδόνες, Hdt.5.18); ὀ. περὶ τὸ κάλλος τῆς πόλεως, τῆς χώρας, feel jealous or envious about or at . . , Plb.1.7.2, 2.17.3: c. acc., look jealously at, “τὸ πλῆθος τῶν προσόδων” Id.31.21.1.
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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    • Aristophanes, Frogs, 192
    • Herodotus, Histories, 7.229
    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.18
    • Xenophon, Hellenica, 2.1.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.7.2
    • Polybius, Histories, 2.17.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 31.21.1
    • Hippocrates, Aphorismi, 6.17
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