A.bore, pierce through, ὡς ὅτε τις τρυπῷ (opt.) δόρυ νήϊον ἀνὴρ τρυπάνῳ, οἱ δέ τ᾽ ἔνερθεν ὑποσσείουσιν ἱμάντι (cf. τρυπανία) Od.9.384, cf. Hp.VC18, Pl.Cra.387e; ἐτρύπησεν τῷ ποδὶ τὴν βελόνην (of a very thin man) AP11.102 (Ammian. or Nicarch.), 308 (Lucill.); with double acc., “πόνος με τὸν πόδα τ.” is stabbing into, Luc.Ocyp. 169; cf. ἁλία (B) :—Pass., τετρυπήσθω τὸ τρῆμα let the hole be bored, Hp.Steril.222; δι᾽ ὠτὸς . . τρυπωμένου through well-bored ear, i. e. open to hear, S.Fr.858 (codd.Plu., but ῥυπωμένου is prob. cj.); τὰ ὦτα τετρυπημένος having one's ears pierced for ear-rings, X.An. 3.1.31; ψῆφος τετρυπημένη the pebble of condemnation which had a hole in it, opp. πλήρης, Aeschin.1.79, Arist.Ath.68.2, 69.1; “ἐτετρύπητο ἄλλη ἔξοδος” Luc.Alex.16.
τρυ_π-άω ,
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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