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ἀρνέομαι , fut.
A.“-ήσομαι” A.Pr.268, Ar.Ec.365; also “ἀρνηθήσομαι” S.Ph.527 (ἀπ-), Ev.Luc.12.9: aor. Pass. ἠρνήθην freq. in Att., Th. 6.60, etc.: also aor. Med. “ἠρνησάμην” Hom. (v. infr.), Hdt.3.1; rare in Trag. and Att., E.Ion1026, Aeschin.2.69,3.324: pf. “ἤρνημαι” D. 28.24:—deny, disown, “τεὸν ἔπος ἀρνήσασθαι” Il.14.212, Od.8.358, etc.; “ἀ. ἀμφὶ βόεσσιν” h.Merc.390; “ἀ. ἃ εἶπον” E.Hec.303: abs., Hdt.2.174; ἀρνούμενοι ἔπαινοι negative praises, Plu.2.58a.
2. refuse, “τόξον . . δόμεναί τε καὶ ἀρνήσασθαι” Od.21.345, cf. Hes.Op.408, Hdt.3.1; “ἀ. γάμον” Od.1.249; ἀ. χρείαν decline, renounce a duty or office, D.18.282; “διαθήκην” Id.36.34; “κληρονομίαν” PFlor.61.49 (i A.D.); ζωὰν ἀ., of a suicide, AP7.473 (Aristodic.); “δυνάμει τὸν βίον ἀ.” S.E.M.11.163; ἀ. ἀνθρώπους cast aside humanity, Him.Or.2.10.
3. abs., say No, decline, “ὁ δ᾽ ἠρνεῖτο στεναχίζων” Il.19.304; “αὐτὰρ ὅ γ᾽ ἠρνεῖτο στερεῶς” 23.42, etc.
4. in expressing denial, c. inf., either without μή, deny that . . , A.Eu.611, E.IA966; or with μή, say that . . not . . , Ar.Eq.572, Antipho 3.3.7, etc.; οὐδ᾽ αὐτὸς ἀρνεῖται μὴ οὐ . . D.C.50.22; also οὐκ α<*>ν ἀρνοίμην τὸ δρᾶν S.Ph.118; ἀ. ὅτι οὐ . . , ὡς οὐ . . , X.Ath.2.17, Lys. 4.1, D.9.54.
5. in expressing refusal, c. inf., “ἀ. εἶναι χρηστούς” Hdt.6.13: poet. also c. part., “οὐ γὰρ εὐτυχῶν ἀρνήσομαι” E.Alc.1158, cf. Or.1582.
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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