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ὑλακτ-έω [υ^], used only in pres. and impf., exc. that Luc.Nec.10 has aor. ὑλάκτησα: (ὑλάω):—
A.bark, bay, howl, of dogs, “ἱστάμενοι δὲ μάλ᾽ ἐγγὺς ὑλάκτεον” Il.18.586; “ἀγαθός γ᾽ ὑλακτεῖν” Ar.V.904; “ὑ. περιτρέχων” Eup.207 (of a man compared to a dog); of hounds, give tongue, “ὑ. περὶ τὰ ἴχνη” X.Cyn.3.5, cf. 9.2.
2. metaph., “κραδίη δέ οἱ ἔνδον ὑλάκτει” howled for rage, Od.20.13; of a hungry stomach, yelp for food, “νηδὺς ὑλακτοῦσα” AP6.89 (Maec.).
b. c. acc. cogn., “τοιαῦθ᾽ ὑλακτεῖ” S.El.299; ἄμουσ᾽ ὑλακτῶν howling his uncouth songs, E.Alc.760.
II. trans., bark at, τινα Ar.V.1402, Isoc.1.29, Theoc.6.29: metaph., bark or snarl at, Plb.16.24.6; hence Vespasian called the Cynic Demetrius κύνα ὑλακτοῦντα, D.C.66.13.
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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