Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, πνέω

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A.“πνευσοῦμαι” Ar.Ra.1221, Arist.Mete.367a13, Thphr.Sign.34, Palaeph.17; “πνεύσω” Thphr.Sign.32, LXXPs.147.7(18), Si.43.20, Gp. 1.12.34, AP9.112 (Antip.Thess.), (ἀνα-) Q.S.13.516 (συμ-πνευσόντων is f.l. in D.18.169): aor. 1 “ἔπνευσα” Hes.Op.506, Hdt.2.20, etc., (ἐν-) Il.17.456, (ἀν-) S.Aj.274: pf. πέπνευκα （ἐπι-) Pl.Phdr.262d, (ἐκ-) Arist.Pr.904a1:—Pass., fut. πνευσθήσομαι （δια-) Aret.CA1.1: aor. ἐπνεύσθην （δι-) Thphr.HP5.5.6, etc.—Hom. and early Prose writers use the simple Verb only in pres. and impf., to which Trag. add fut. and aor. 1 Act.—For the form ἄμπνυε, v. ἀναπνέω; for ἀμπνύνθη, -πνυτο, v. ἄμπνυτο; and for pf. Pass. πέπνυ_μαι, part. πεπνυ_μένος, v. πέπνυμαι.—Like other disyll. Verbs in -έω, this Verb contracts only εε, εει; but ἐκπνέων is disyll. in A.Ag.1493, 1517 (both lyr.):—blow, of wind and air, “οὐδέ ποτ᾽ οὖροι πνείοντες φαίνονθ᾽” Od.4.361; “αὔρη δ᾽ ἐκ ποταμοῦ ψυχρὴ πνέει” 5.469; “ἐτησίαι . . οὐκ ἔπνευσαν” Hdt.2.20, etc.; τῷ πνέοντι (sc. ἀνέμῳ or πνεύματι) Luc. Cont.3; ἡ πνέουσα (sc. αὔρα) Act.Ap.27.40; also of a flute-player, “μέγα πνέων” Poll.4.72; and of the flutes themselves, “αὐλοὺς ἡδὺ πνέοντας” AP6.254（Myrin.); πνεῖται flutes are sounding, Mnesim.4.57 (anap.).

II. breathe, send forth an odour, “ἀμβροσίη . . ἡδὺ πνείουσα” Od.4.446; π. εὐῶδες, δυσῶδες, Poll.2.75, etc.: abs., Dsc.3.80.

2. c. acc., breathe out, send forth, “Ζεφύρου πνείοντος ἐέρσην” Call.Ap. 82.

3. c. gen., breathe or smell of a thing, “οὐ μύρου πνέον” S.Fr. 565; “τράγου π.” AP11.240 (Lucill.); “μόγοιο” Q.S.6.164; “λύθρου καὶ αἵματος” Id.5.120 (ἐπιπν- codd.): rarely c. dat., “μύροισι π.” smell with . . , AP5.199: freq. metaph., breathe, be redolent of, “Χαρίτων πνείοντα μέλη” Simon.184.3; “ὄμματα . . πόθου πνείοντα” AP5.258 (Paul. Sil.); φόνου π. cj. in Tryph.505; “αὐθαδείας πολὺς ἔπνει” D.H.7.51.

III. of perceptible breathing, [“ἵππω] πνείοντε κατ᾽ ὤμων” Il.13.385; “π. ὕπνῳ” A.Ch.621 (lyr.).

IV. generally, draw breath, breathe: hence, live, Il.17.447; οἱ πνέοντες, = οἱ ζῶντες, S.Tr.1160; “ὄλβος ἀεὶ πνεῖ” Simm.25.12; “ἥμισύ μευ ψυχῆς ἔτι τὸ πνέον” Call.Epigr.42.

V. metaph., c. acc. cogn., breathe forth, μένεα πνείοντες breathing spirit, epith. of warriors, Il.2.536,3.8, 11.508, etc.; so “πῦρ π.” Hes.Th.319, Pi. Fr.146; “φόνον δόμοι πνέουσιν” A.Ag.1309; “κότον πνέων” Id.Ch.34 (lyr.), cf. 951 (lyr.); “φρενὸς πνέων τροπαίαν” Id.Ag.219 (lyr.); Ἄρη πνεόντων ib.376 (lyr.); πνέων χάριν τινί ib.1206; “πῦρ πνειόντων . . ἄστρων” S.Ant. 1146 (lyr.); “πῦρ π. καὶ φόνον” E.IT288; “ὠδῖνας” Id.HF862: paratrag. in Com., “πνέοντας δόρυ καὶ λόγχας” Ar.Ra.1016; τρέχει τις Ἀλφειὸν πνέων, of a swift runner, Id.Av.1121, etc.; and in a rhetorical passage, “οἱ πῦρ πνέοντες, οἱ νενικηκότες Λακεδαιμονίους” X.HG7.5.12.

2. with neut. Adjs. or Prons., πνέοντες μεγάλα giving themselves airs, E.Andr.189; τόσονδ᾽ ἔπνευσας ib.327; “κενεὰ πνεύσαις” Pi.O.10(11).93; “χαμηλὰ πνέων” Id.P.11.30: abs., ὑπὲρ σακέων πνείοντες breathing over their shields, i. e. unable to repress their rage for war, Hes.Sc. 24; “θρασείᾳ πνέων καρδίᾳ” Pi.P.10.44: with nom., “Ἄρης . . μέγας πνέων” E.Rh.323; “πολὺς ἔπνει καὶ λαμπρός” D.25.57; “οὗτος . . καικίας ἢ συκοφαντίας πνεῖ” Ar.Eq.437; ᾧ σὺ μὴ πνεύσῃς ἐνδέξιος on whom thou breathest not favourably, Call.Epigr.10.3.

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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