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θείνω , Ep. inf.
A.“θεινέμεναι” Od.22.443: impf. “ἔθεινον” A.Pers.418, etc.: fut. “θενῶ” Ar.Ach.564: aor. 1 part. “θείνας” Il.20.481 (ἔθεινε in 21.491 may be impf.); other moods from an aor. 2 ἔθενον (which does not occur in ind.); imper. “θένε” E.Rh.676, Ar.Av.54; subj. “θένω” E.Rh.687 (troch.), Ar.Lys.821 (lyr.), cj. in Theoc.22.66; inf. “θενεῖν” E.Heracl. 271; part. “θενών” Id.Cyc.7, Ar.Eq.640,V.1384,Av.1613,Ra.855 (these forms were freq. incorrectly written θένειν, θένων, as if from a pres. Θένω):—Pass., only in pres. and impf.:—poet. word, strike, τινα Od. 18.63; “ξίφεσι” 22.443; “φασγάνῳ αὐχένα θείνας” Il.20.481; “μάστιγι . . θείνων” 17.430; [“τόξοισι] ἔθεινε παρ᾽ οὔατα” 21.491:—Pass., 1.588; “θεινόμεναι βουπλῆγι” 6.135; “ἄορι” 10.484; θεινομένου . . πρὸς οὔδεϊ dashed to earth, Od.9.459; later “σκάπτῳ θενών τινα” Pi.O.7.28; “ῥαιστῆρι” A. Pr.56, cf. 76; “τινὰ δι᾽ ἀσπίδος” E.Heracl.738; “ἰτέαν εἰς μέσην” Id.Cyc.7; “τῷ σκέλει θένε τὴν πέτ ραν” Ar.Av.54; “τῷ πρωκτῷ θενὼν τὴν κιγκλίδ᾽” Id.Eq.640; ποσσὶ θ. σκέλος, of a wrestler, Theoc.22.66: abs., θείνετε v.l. in E.Or.1303 (lyr.); “θεῖν᾽, ἀντέρειδε” Id.Supp.702; “θένε, θένε” Id.Rh.676 (lyr.):—Pass., A.Pers.303, Ch.388 (lyr.).
2. metaph., “θείνει δ᾽ ὀνείδει μάντιν” Id.Th.382.
3. intr., of corpses, “θ. ἐπ᾽ ἀκτᾶς” Id.Pers.966.
II. to the same Verb, but only with the meaning slay, belong the foll. forms formerly referred to a pres. Φένω, viz.: aor. 2 “ἔπεφνον” Il.21.55, Pi.P.10.46, B.17.19, S.OT1497; Ep. and Lyr. “πέφνον” Il.13.363, B.8.13; subj. πέφνῃς, ῃ, Od.22.346, Il.20.172; inf. “πεφνέμεν” 6.180; part. “πεφνών” 16.827 (parox. acc. to Aristarch., as if from a pres. πέφνω, which is found in late Ep., Opp.H.2.133): from the short form φα^ (for φṇ) come pf. Pass. 3sg. “πέφαται” Il.15.140, al.; 3pl. “πέφανται” 5.531; inf. “πεφάσθαι” 13.447: fut. Pass. πεφήσεαι ib.829, Od.22.217; “ἢ πέφατ᾽ ἢ . . πεφήσεται” Il.15.140; later, part. “πεφασμένος” Lyc.269, 1374, Opp.H.5.122: Gramm. also give aor. 1 “φάσαι” Hsch. s.v. φάσγανον, Phot. s.v. προσφατος, Sch.Pi.N. 1.69: aor. 2 part. “παφών” Hsch.: aor. 2 Med. ἀπ-έφατο,= ἀπέθανεν, Id. Hence also φα^τός slain, Id., found in compds. Ἀρεί-φατος, μυλή-φατος, ὀδυνή-φατος, πυρί-φατος. (I.-E. g[uglide]hen- cf. Skt. hánti, pl. ghnánti, Hittite kuenzi, pl. kunanzi 'strike', 'kill'; g[uglide]hon- in Gr. φόνος; g[uglide]hn- in Skt. ghn-ánti, Gr. ἔ-πε-φν-ον (redupl.); g[uglide]hṇ- in Skt. -hata-, Gr. -φατο-, πέφαται, etc.)
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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