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τητάομαι , Dor. τα_τ- , (τήτη) Pass., only used in pres.,
A.to be in want, “σὺ δὲ τητᾷ” Hes.Op.408; τὸ τητᾶσθαι privation, S.El.265; τητῶνται shd. be read for ἡττῶνται (or ἀπατῶνται) in X.Cyr.8.4.33.
2. elsewh. always c. gen., to be in want of, be deprived or bereft of, “φίλων τατώμενος” Pi.N.10.78, cf. E.Hel.274; [ἀνδρός], πατρός, νυμφίων, S.OC1618, E.Heracl.24, Hec.324; “τῶν ἐμῶν τ. πρὸς τοῦ κακίστου” S.Ph.383; “ἀδέρκτων ὀμμάτων” Id.OC1200; “Ἑλλάδος τητώμενοι” E.Heracl.31; χορῶν τ. Id.El.310; “χαρμάτων τητώμεθα” Id.Or. 1084; “ῥυθμοῦ τε καὶ ἁρμονίας” Pl.Lg.810b; “εὐγενείας” Arist.EN1099b2; “ἔργου” Jul.Or.4.134c.
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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