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θέλγω , Ion. impf.
A.“θέλγεσκεν” Od.3.264: fut. “θέλξω” 16.298,A.Pr.865, Dor. “-ξῶ” Theoc.Ep.5.3: aor. “ἔθελξα” Il. (v. infr.):—Med., Alc.Supp. 11.7:—Pass., fut. “θελχθήσομαι” Luc.Salt.85: aor. “ἐθέλχθην” Od.10.326, Ep. 3pl. “-χθεν” 18.212:—poet. Verb (used by Pl.Smp.197e, and in late Prose, as Phld.Mus.p.72K., Jul.Or.4.150c, etc.), enchant, be witch, [“Ἑρμῆς] ἀνδρῶν ὄμματα θέλγει” Od.5.47, al.; “τὸν . . Ποσειδάων ἐδάμασσε θέλξας ὄσσε φαεινά” Il.13.435; [“Κίρκη] οὐδ᾽ ὣς θέλξαι σε δυνήσεται” Od.10.291, cf. 326 (Pass.); [“Σειρῆνες] πάντας ἀνθρώπους θέλγουσιν, ὅτις σφέας εἰσαφίκηται” 12.40; [θύελλα] θέλγε νόον spell-bound their senses, Il.12.255.
2. cheat, cozen, Od.16.195,298, S.Tr.710: c. dat. modi, “μήτε τί μοι ψεύδεσσι χαρίζεο μήτε τι θέλγε” Od.14.387; “μαλακοῖσι καὶ αἱμυλίοισι λόγοισι” 1.57; ψεύδεσσι, δόλῳ, Il.21.276,604; “ἔπεσσιν” Od.3.264.
3. metaph., charm, beguile, 17.521; οἱ ἐλπὶς “ἔθελγε νόον” h.Cer.37, cf. Pi.P.1.12, D.Chr.45.5; “καί μ᾽ οὔτι μελιγλώσσοις πειθοῦς ἐπαοιδαῖσιν θέλξει” A.Pr.174: “σὺ δὲ θέλγοις ἂν ἄθελκτον” Id.Supp.1055; “θέλγει ἔρως” E.Hipp.1274 (lyr.); “ᾠδῆς . . , ἣν ᾁδει θέλγων . . νόημα” Pl.Smp.197e:—Pass., “μήθ᾽ ὕπνῳ θελχθῇς” E.IA142 (lyr.); “τὰ δ᾽ οὔτι θέλγεται” A.Ch.420 (lyr.); “ἔρῳ δ᾽ ἄρα θυμὸν ἔθελχθεν” Od.18.212; Μούσαισιν . . τὴν φρένα θελγομένη (which may be Med.) IG14.1960.
4. c. inf., ἵμερος θέλξει τὸ μὴ κτεῖναι will persuade her not to kill, A.Pr. 865; “ἔρως δέ νιν . . θέλξειεν αἰχμάσαι τάδε” S.Tr.355; ἕπεσθαι θ. Ael. NA10.14.
5. produce by spells, ἀοιδαὶ θέλξαν νιν (sc. εὐφροσύναν) Pi.N.4.3; [“Γαλήνη] θ. ἀνηνεμίην” AP9.544 (Adaeus). (Perh. cf. Lith. žuelgiù 'look', 'glance'.)
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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