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σεμν-ύνω ,= foreg.,
A.exalt, magnify, “τὸν σαυτοῦ θεόν” Pl.Phlb.28b; “τῷ ω_” Id.Phdr.244d; “ἑαυτούς” Id.Phlb.28c, cf. Plt.263d; “ὑμᾶς” D.19.238; “τὰ παρ᾽ αὑτοῖς” Id.23.212; ταῦτα περὶ ἑωυτὸν ἐσέμνυνε thus did he throw a cloak of majesty about himself, Hdt.1.99.
II. Med. with aor. ἐσεμνυνάμην, to be grave, solemn, esp. affect a grave and solemn air, E.Fr.924 (lyr.); “μηδ᾽ αὐθάδως σεμνυνόμενος χαλέπαινε” Ar.Ra.1020, cf. Av.727; “δικανικὴ καὶ ἰατρικὴ σεμνύνονται” Pl.R.405a; “πρὸς σέ” Id.Thg.130b: to be reserved, of a girl, E.IA996: with part., “σεμνύνεσθαι ὥς τι ὄντε” Pl.Phdr.243a; “οὐ σεμνύνεται ἐσχηματισμένη ὡς ὑπερήφανόν τι διαπραττομένη” Id.Grg.511d; “ς. πολίτης ὤν” Luc.Patr.Enc.2; also ς. ἐπὶ πέντε καὶ εἴκοσι καταλόγῳ προγόνων to be proud of . . , pique oneself on it, Pl.Tht.175a, cf. Isoc. 16.29, D.19.235; “ἔν τινι” Id.18.258: also c. dat., “ταῖς ἐξουσίαις” Sosiph. 3.2; τῷ σπανίως ὁρᾶσθαι ς. X.Ages.9.1, cf. 2, Hdn.1.5.5: rarely c. acc., “ς. τὴν μοιχείαν” Id.5.7.3: c. dupl. acc., “μητρόπολιν Ὑπάταν” Hld. 2.34; “ς. διότι” Plb.9.35.1.
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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