Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ὀκν-έω

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A.“ὤκνεον” 20.155 : fut. “-ήσω” Isoc.6.72 : aor. “ὤκνησα” D.18.103, etc. : (ὄκνος) :—shrink from doing, scruple, hesitate to do a thing, c. inf., “ὀκνείω ἵππων ἐπιβαινέμεν” Il.5.255 ; “ἀρχέμεναι πολέμοιο ὤκνεον” 20.155.—In Att. mostly with collat. sense of the feeling which causes the hesitation, and so,

1. of shame or fear (in a moral sense), ὀκνῶ προδότης καλεῖσθαι I shrink from being called, fear to be called, S.Ph.93, cf. Th.5.61, Lys.Fr. 23 ; οἷα ἐγὼ ὀκνῶ πρὸς ὑμᾶς ὀνομάσαι shrink from naming, hesitate to name, D.2.19, cf. Pl.Grg.462e ; “τοσαῦθ᾽ ὅσ᾽ ὀκνήσαιμ᾽ ἂν . . εἰπεῖν” D.18.103, cf. 24.7, etc.

2. of pity, “σὰς ὀκνῶ θρᾶξαι φρένας” A.Pr.628, cf.S. El.1271.

3. most commonly of cowardice or indolence, “μεμηνότ᾽ ἄνδρα . . ὀκνεῖς ἰδεῖν” Id.Aj.81, cf. Th.1.120, etc.—The Homeric constr. c. inf. continued most common (v. supr.): rarely c. acc., πῶς τὸ μητρὸς λέκτρον οὐκ ὀκνεῖν με δεῖ; S.OT976 ; “ὃν μήτ᾽ ὀκνεῖτε” Id.OC731, cf. X.Cyr.2.2.21 ; “ἂν ὀκνῇς τὸ μανθάνειν” Philem.213.1 ; also “ὀ. περί τινος” X.Cyr.4.5.20 ; “ὀ. μή . . ” Pl.Phdr.257c, X.An.2.3.9, D.1.18.

II. freq. also abs., shrink, hesitate, hang back, Hdt.7.50, S.El.22,320, Antipho Soph.55, Luc.Prom.18, etc. ; of soldiers, Arist.Pol.1297b11.

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 Timocrates, 7
- Herodotus, Histories, 7.50
- Homer, Iliad, 20.155
- Isocrates, Archidamus, 72
- Plato, Phaedrus, 257c
- Plato, Gorgias, 462e
- Sophocles, Ajax, 81
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- Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, 731
- Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 976
- Sophocles, Philoctetes, 93
- Thucydides, Histories, 1.120
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- Xenophon, Anabasis, 2.3.9
- Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 2.2.21
- Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 4.5.20
- Homer, Iliad, 5.255
- Lucian, Prometheus, 18

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