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χηρ-εύω , intr.,
A.to be without, lack, c. gen., “νῆσος ἀνδρῶν χ.” Od.9.124, cf. Plu. Pomp.28, Ael.NA4.59: “γῆ χ. τῶν ἐκπονούντων” Alciphr.3.25; “ὁλκὰς τῶν ἐμπλεόντων χηρεύουσα” Hld.1.1; τῶν τῆς Ἀφροδίτης ὀργίων χ. Ach. Tat.4.1; “οὐδέποτε χ. τῶν ὄντων τινὸς ὁ κόσμος” Herm. ap. Stob.1.41.6; “χ. ἀπό τινος” Steph. in Hp.1.219 D.
2. abs. of a woman, to be widowed, live in widowhood, Is.6.51, D.30.11,33; of birds, Arist. Fr.347; also of men, to be a widower, Plu.Cat.Ma.24:—Med., “χηρεύσῃ λέχος” E.Alc.1089.
3. live in solitude, of a fugitive, S.OT479 (anap.).
II. trans., bereave, E.Cyc.440; “πεσὼν χηρεύσει σύνοικον” Aphth.Prog.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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (9):
    • Demosthenes, Against Onetor, 11
    • Euripides, Alcestis, 1089
    • Euripides, Cyclops, 440
    • Homer, Odyssey, 9.124
    • Isaeus, Philoctemon, 51
    • Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, 479
    • Plutarch, Marcus Cato, 24
    • Plutarch, Pompey, 28
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 4.59
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