A.take, “αἴνυτο τεύχε᾽ ἀπ᾽ ὤμων” Il.11.580, 13.550; “ἀπὸ πασσάλου αἴνυτο τόξον” Od.21.53; χεῖρας αἰνύμεναι taking hold of, 22.500: c. gen. partit., “τυρῶν αἰνυμένους” 9.225: metaph., ἀλλά μ᾽ Ὀδυσσῆος πόθος αἴνυται a longing seizes me for him, 14.144, cf. Hes.Sc.41; enjoy, feed on, “καρπόν” Simon.5.17. (Root αἰ-, as in ἔξ-αι-τος.)
αἴνυμαι , poet. Verb, only in pres. and impf. without augm.:—
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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