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σοβ-έω ,
A.scare away birds, “ἡμεῖς δὲ . ., οὐ σοβοῦντος οὐδενὸς ἀνεπτόμεσθ᾽” Ar.Av.34; ἐπειδὴ τουτονὶ σεσοβήκαμεν (just above he had been called στροῦθος) Id.V.211; “ς. τὰς ἀλεκτρυόνας” Pl.Com. 20; οὐ σοβήσετ᾽ ἔξω τὰς ὄρνιθας ἀφ᾽ ἡμῶν; Men.167; “τέττιγας” Arist. HA556b14; “μυίας” Thphr.Char.25.5; drive along, ὥσπερ αἰπόλιον . . αὐτοὺς τῇ ῥάβδῳ ς. Luc.Cat.3; ἔχοντες ξύλα σοβοῦσι τὴν ὕλην they scare the wood (i.e. beat it so as to put up the birds), Arist.HA620a35.
2. generally, drive away, clear away, “τὴν κόνιν” X.Eq.5.5:— Pass., “τὰς ἄλλας φροντίδας . . σεσοβῆσθαι” Hp.Ep.12.
II. move rapidly or violently (cf. “σοβαρός” 1 and κυκλοσοβέω）, ς. τὴν κύλικα push about the bottle, Philostr.Jun.Im.3.
2. metaph., ὁ παῖς σοβείτω τοῖς ποτηρίοις let him ply [the guests] with cups (cf. “πατάσσω” 11.2), Amphis 18.
3. metaph. also in Pass., to be agitated, excited, Philostr.VS1.21.5; “σεσόβηται ἐρωτικῶς” Id.Im.1.8; γυνὴ σεσοβημένη 'forward' (of Opinion personified), Hp.Ep.15; “σεσοβημένος οἴστρῳ” AP6.219 (Antip.); σες. πρὸς δόξαν all in a fever for glory, Plu.Pomp. 29; “σες. περί τι” Ph.1.131; ῥυθμὸς σες. hurried, wild, Longin.41.1; “σες. κίνησις” Ph.2.267.
III. intr., walk in a pompous manner, strut, swagger, “διὰ τῆς ἀγορᾶς σοβεῖ” D.21.158; “σοβοῦντες ἐν ὄχλῳ προπομπῶν” Plu.Sol.27; “μεθ᾽ ὅσης θεραπείας καὶ παρασκευῆς ἐσόβει” Alciphr.1.38; “σόβει ἐς Ἄργος” off with you! Luc.DDeor.24.2; “ς. παρὰ τὸν Δρύαντα” Longus 3.29. (Causative of σέβομαι, q.v.)
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 (14):
    • Aristophanes, Birds, 34
    • Aristophanes, Wasps, 211
    • Demosthenes, Against Midias, 158
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 5.5
    • Theophrastus, Characters, 25.5
    • Plutarch, Pompey, 29
    • Plutarch, Solon, 27
    • Lucian, Cataplus, 3
    • Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 24.2
    • Philostratus the Athenian, Lives of the Sophists, 1.21.5
    • Philostratus the Lemnian (Philostratus Major), Imagines, 1.8
    • Philostratus Minor, Imagines, 11.2
    • Philostratus Minor, Imagines, 3
    • Longus, Daphnis & Chloe, 3.29
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