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τύπτω Root ΤΥΠ

I.to beat, strike, smite, Il., etc.; ἅλα τύπτον ἐρετμοῖς Od.; ἴχνια τύπτειν to tread in his very track, Il.:—absol., Ζέφυρος λαίλαπι τύπτων the west wind beating, lashing with fury, id=Il.
2.metaph., ἄχος κατὰ φρένα τύψε sharp grief smote him to the heart, id=Il.; ἡ ἀληθηίη ἔτυψε Καμβύσεα Hdt., etc.
II.Mid., like κόπτομαι, Lat. plangor, to beat one's breast for grief, id=Hdt.; c. acc. pers. to mourn for a person, id=Hdt.
III.Pass. to be beaten, struck or wounded, Hom., etc.; to be stung, Xen.
2.c. acc. cogn. to receive blows or wounds, ἕλκεα, ὅσσ᾽ ἐτύπη Il.; τύπτομαι πολλάς (sc. πληγάς) I get many blows, Ar.; so c. dat., καιρίηι (sc. πληγῆι) τετύφθαι Hdt.

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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