A.“ᾤμωζον” Id.Lys.516 : fut. “οἰμώξομαι” Eup.305, Ar.Pl.111, X.HG2.3.56, etc. ; later “οἰμώξω” Plu. 2.182d, AP5.301.2 (Agath.) : aor. “ᾤμωξα” Hom. (v. infr.) :—Pass., v. infr. 11. (From οἴμοι, as οἴζω from οἴ) :—wail aloud, lament, “ᾤμωξέν τε καὶ ὣ πεπλήγετο μηρώ” Il.12.162, etc. ; οἰ. σμερδαλέον, ἐλεεινά, 18.35, 22.408 ; “ἦ κε μέγ᾽ οἰμώξειε γέρων ἱππηλάτα Πηλεύς” 7.125, cf. Hdt.7.159 ; of a wounded man, “οἰμώξας πέσεν” Od.18.398 ; “γνὺξ δ᾽ ἔριπ᾽ οἰμώξας” Il.5.68 ; “στυγνὸν οἰμώξας” S.Ant.1226 : c. acc. cogn., “Τελαμῶνος οἰ. μέλη” Theopomp.Com.64.
2. in familiar Att., οἴμωζε, as a curse, plague take you ! Ar.Ach.1035 ; “οἰμώζετε” Id.Ra.257 ; “οἰμώξἄρα σύ” Id.Pl.876 ; “οἰμώξεσθ᾽ ἄρα” Id.Nu.217 ; “οἰμώζειν λέγω σοι” Id.Pl.58, cf. Luc.Gall.23 ; οὐκ οἰμώξεται; Ar.Ra.178, cf. X.HG2.3.56, Men.Epit.428 ; “οἰμώζων καθεδεῖται” Ar.Ach.840 ; “οἴμωζε μεγάλα” Id.Av.1503 ; “οἰμώξει μακρά” Id.Pl.111, Men.Epit.528 ; “κολάκων οἰμωξομένων” Ar.V.1033 ; “πονηροῦ σοφιστοῦ καὶ οἰμωξομένου” D.35.40 ; ἐᾶν οἰμώζειν 'let go hang', PCair.Zen.44.8 (iii B. C.).
II. trans., pity, bewail, c. acc., Tyrt.7, A.Ch.8, S.El.788, E.Hipp.1405, El.248 :— Pass., “οἰμωχθείς” bewailed, Thgn. 1204 ; “ᾠμωγμένον κάρα” E.Ba. 1285.
