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ζώννυ_μι (
A.“ὑπο-ζωνύναι” IG12.73.9), (παρα-) Pl.R.553c; ζωννύω Hp. Mul.1.68: impf. “ἐζώννυον” Ev.Jo.21.18: fut. “ζώσω” LXXEx.29.9, Ev.Jo. l.c.: aor. 1 “ἔζωσα” Od.18.76, Hp.Art.14: pf. “ἔζωκα” Paus.8.40.2, (δι-) D.H.2.5:—Med. (v. infr. 11):—Pass., aor. 1 ἐζώσθην （δι-) Thphr.Sign.22: pf. ἔζωμαι （δι-) Th.1.6 ap. Phot., Suid. s.v. σέσωται, 3sg. ἔζωται （δι-) IG22.1491.36, (ὑπ-) ib.1621.68, “ἔζωσται” Hp.Art.l.c.; also in med. sense (v. infr.): rare in Att., even in compds.:—gird, esp. gird round the loins for a pugilistic conflict (v. infr.), “ἄγον ζώσαντες ἀνάγκῃ” Od.18.76 (here only Act. in Hom.); “ζῶσέ [μιν] . . Ἀθήνη” Hes.Op.72; ζ. τινά hug him in wrestling, Paus.8.40.2; ζ. γαῖαν, of Ocean, AP9.778 (Phil.); ζ. νῆα ὅπλῳ,= “ὑποζώννυμι” 11, A.R.1.368: c. dupl. acc., “ζ. τινὰ ζώνην” LXX Le.8.7, cf. 1 Ki.17.39.
II. Med., ζώννυ^μαι , gird oneself, esp. of athletes. “γυμνός, ζωννυμένων τῶν πρὶν ἐνὶ σταδίῳ” IG7.52.6 (Megara, iv B.C.); “τὼ δὲ ζωσαμένω βήτην ἐς μέσσον ἀγῶνα” Il.23.685, cf. 710; “ζώννυνταί τε νέοι καὶ ἐπεντύνονται ἄεθλα” Od.24.89; “Ὀδυσσεὺς ζώσατο μὲν ῥάκεσιν περὶ μήδεα” 18.67, cf. Parth. 10.2.
2. generally, gird up one's loins for battle, “ζώννυσθαι ἄνωγεν Ἀργείους” Il.11.15; ζώννυσθαι [ζωστῆρι] 10.78: c. acc., “ὅθι ζωννύσκετο μίτρην” 5.857 (vulg.); “ζώσατο δὲ ζώνην” 14.181 (vulg.); “χαλκὸν ζώννυσθαι” 23.130; “ἐς γόνυ μέχρι χιτῶνα ζώννυσθαι” Call.Dian.12; “χιτῶνα εἰς μηρὸν ἔζωστο” Plu.Ant.4; for labour, Hes.Op.345; “ἐπὶ βουσίν” A.R.1.426, etc.; “ζώννυσθαι τὰς κοιλίας ζώναις” Theopomp.Hist. 39a.
III. Pass., to be fixed by means of girths, LXX 1 Ma.6.37.
2. to be formed in belts or seams, καδμεία ἐζωσμένη （ἐξωσμ- codd.) prob. in Ps.-Democr.Alch.p.45B. (cf. ζωνῖτις). (ζω（ς)- from I.-E. yōs-, cf. Lith. júosti 'to gird', júostas, Avest. yāsta-,= ζωστός 'girt'.)
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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