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τολυπ-εύω ,
A.wind off carded wool into a clew for spinning, Ar.Lys.587 (anap.).
II. metaph., wind off, achieve, accomplish, ἐγὼ δὲ δόλους τολυπεύω, of Penelope's web (with a play on the literal sense), Od.19.137; “ἐπεὶ πόλεμον τολύπευσε” 1.238, 4.490, al.; Φρῃξὶν πένθος τ. work them grief, E.Rh.744 (anap.); δόμον τ. finish building it, AP9.655; “λίθον . . ἐκ θεμέθλων” Arch.Anz.31.149 (Nicopolis).
2. endure, “ἐς γῆρας τ. ἀργαλέους πολέμους” Il.14.86; “ὁπόσα τολύπευσε σὺν αὐτῷ καὶ πάθεν ἄλγεα” 24.7. (Poet. word, v. l. in J.AJ17.1.2 for πολιτεύω.）
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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