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θλάω , imper.
A.“θλῆ” Herod. (v. infr.); inf. “θλᾶν” Gal.UP13.8; part. θλῶσα ib.13.3: 3sg. impf. ἔθλα （συγκατ-) Machoap.Ath.8.348f: fut. θλάσω [α^] （ἐν-) Hp.Int.44: aor. ἔθλα^σα, Ep. θλάσσα (v. infr.):—Pass., fut. “θλασθήσομαι” Gal.UP12.15: aor. “ἐθλάσθην” Hp.Ulc.6: pf. τέθλασμαι （συν-) Alex.270, Ph.1.609, Theoc.22.45:—crush, bruise, “θλάσσε δέ οἱ κοτύλην” Il.5.307; “ὀστέα δ᾽ εἴσω ἔθλασεν” Od.18.97; “οὔτ᾽ ἔρρηξε βαλὼν οὔτ᾽ ἔθλασε” Hes.Sc.140; [φωνὴν] ὥσπερ θλῶσαν [τὴν ἀκοήν] S.E.M.6.40: sens. obsc., “αὐτὸς τὰ σαυτοῦ θλῆ” Herod.2.83:—Pass., Arist.Pr.890a3, Herod.3.44; “τεθλασμένος οὔατα πυγμαῖς” Theoc. l.c.; “ῥάβδος -μένη” LXX 4 Ki.18.21.
2. overload(?), “τὰς ἅλως” PFay.112.20 (i A.D.).
3. metaph., oppress, LXXJd.10.8,al. (Cf. φλάω.)
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 140
    • Homer, Iliad, 5.307
    • Homer, Odyssey, 18.97
    • Old Testament, 2 Kings, 18.21
    • Hippocrates, De ulceribus, 6
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