A.lie down, pres. only in Hsch. λέχεται （λεύχεται cod.): κοιμᾶται, cf. Theognost.Can.139: pf. part. λελοχυῖα ( = λεχὼ γενομένη) Hsch.; other tenses in Ep.: fut. λέξομαι: aor. ἐλεξάμην; also 3sg. aor. ἔλεκτο, λέκτο; imper. λέξο, λέξεο (v. infr.):—lie down, esp. to sleep, λέξεται ὕπνῳ will lie asleep, Il.4.131, cf. Od.7.319; “λέξομαι εἰς εὐνήν” 17.102: aor., “πὰρ δ᾽ Ἑλένη ἐλέξατο” 4.305; “τῷ ἔνι λεξάσθην” Il. 14.350; λεξάσθων παρὰ τάφρον let them bivouac, 9.67, cf. 8.519; “ἔλεκτο” Od.19.50, Hes.Sc.46; “λέκτο” Od.4.453, al.; imper. “λέξο” Il.24.650, Od.10.320; “λέξεο” Il.9.617, Od.19.598.
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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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