A.lie awake before dawn, “κατ᾽ εὐνάν” Theoc.10.58 ; ὀρθρεύουσαν ψυχὰν ἐκπληχθεῖσα my soul terror-stricken in the sleepless dawn, E.Tr.182 (lyr.) :—Med., γόοισιν ὀρθρευομένα wailing sleepless in the early dawn, Id.Supp.978 (lyr.), cf. Fr.773.25 (lyr.) ; “ὀρθρεύεσθαι καλοῦσιν οἱ Ἀττικοὶ τῷ λύχνῳ προσκεῖσθαι, πρὶν ἡμέραν γενέσθαι” Phryn.PSp.93 B.
ὀρθρ-εύω , (ὄρθρος)
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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