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τον-όω ,
A.brace up, “τὰ σώματα καὶ τὰς ψυχάς” Ti.Locr. 103d, cf. Plu.2.647c, Agathin. ap. Orib.10.7.7, Sor.1.47, al., Gal. 6.411; “Ῥωμαίους ἐτόνωσεν αἰδὼς δόξης” J.BJ5.11.6:—Pass., ἡ δεξιὰ τετόνωται ib.1.26.2; [“οὐσίαι] ἐπὶ τὸ οἰκεῖον τῇ φύσει αὐτῶν παραγίνονται σχῆμα τετονωμέναι” Stoic.2.149 (cf. “τόνος” 11.4); “τοῦ ἀναπνεομένου ἀέρος . . ὑφ̓ οὗ τονοῦται τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς εἶδος” Nicom. ap. Theol.Ar. 48.
II. place the accent on a word or syllable, accentuate it, Sch. Il.12.137; περὶ τῶν διαφόρως τονουμένων, title of work by Phlp. (ed. Egenolff, Vratisl. 1880).
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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