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ὀρύσσω , Od.10.305, Att. ὀρύκ-ττω (late pres. imper.
A.“ὄρυγε” IG12(5).519 (Seriphos)): fut. “ὀρύξω” Il.7.341 : aor. ὤρυξα, Ep. ὄρυξα as always in Hom., Od.11.25, al.: pf. ὀρώρυ^χα （κατ-) Pherecr.145.19 : plpf. “ὠρωρύχειν” App.BC4.107:—Med., aor. “ὠρυξάμην” Hdt.1.186, A.R.3.1032, etc.:—Pass., fut. ὀρυχθήσομαι （κατ-) Antipho 3.2.10, also ὀρυ^χήσομαι （κατ-) Ar.Av.394 (Elmsl.) and “ὀρωρύξομαι” Suid. s.v. ὤρυσσον (prob.): aor. “ὠρύχθην” Hdt.1.186, etc.: pf. “ὀρώρυγμαι” Id.2.158, etc.; in compds., ὤρυγμαι (“κατ-” Antipho 3.3.12 codd., “ὑποκατ-” Sophr.3, “δι-” Luc.Tim. 53, etc.): plpf. “ὀρωρύγμην” Hdt.1.186, Pl.Criti.118c, also ὠρωρύγμην （δι-) X.An.7.8.14.—An aor. 2 Act. ὤρυ^γον occurs in Philostr. VA1.25: Pass. “ὠρύγην” OGI72.7,673.6 (Egypt, i A. D.), (δι-) Hld.9.7, Gp.4.3.2, (κατ-) f.l. in X.An.5.8.11 :—dig, “ὀρύξομεν ἐγγύθι τάφρον” Il.7.341; “βόθρον ὄρυξα” Od.11.25; “ἔλυτρον” Hdt.1.186; “ὀρύγματα” Id.4.200; “ταῖς ὁπλαῖς εὐνάς” Ar.Eq.605; “ὑπόνομον ἐκ τῆς πόλεως” Th.2.76: abs., “ὤρυσσον ὑπὸ μαστίγων” Hdt.7.22 ; “ἐὰν ὀρύξῃ τις παρὰ τὴν θάλασσαν” Arist.Pr. 933b33 :—Med., “δεξαμενὰς ὀρύξασθαι” Hdt.3.9:—Pass., ὀρώρυκται (sc. ἡ διῶρυξ) Id.2.158 ; τὸ ὀρυχθέν, = τὸ ὄρυγμα, the trench, Id.1.186.
II. dig up, “[μῶλυ]” Od.10.305 ; “κυκλάμινον” Theoc.5.123: Med., λίθους ὠρύξατο had stones dug or quarried, Hdt.1.186:—Pass., ὁ ὀρυσσόμενος χοῦς the soil that was dug up, ib.185 ; “ὑπὸ μεταλλείας ὀρύττεσθαι” Pl.Criti. 114e.
III. dig through, i. e. make a canal through (like διορύσσειν), τὸν ἰσθμὸν ὀ. Orac. ap. Hdt.1.174 ; “τὸ χωρίον ὀρώρυκτο” Id.1.186 ; of moles, burrow, either abs., as Arist.HA606a2 ; or γῆν ὀ., Id.Mir.842b4.
IV. bury, ἔγχος . . γαίας ὀρύξας ἔνθα μήτις ὄψεται (where γαίας depends on ἔνθα) S.Aj.659, cf. X.Oec.19.2.
V. of a wrestler, dig into, gouge a tender part, “τὠφθαλμώ” Ar.Av.442, cf. Pax899, Philostr. VA8.25 ; gouge out, “ὀφθαλμὸν ὤρυττέν τις ὥσπερ ἰχθύος” Antiph.119.
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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