A.v. καμμύω:—close the eyes, “κ. τὰ βλέφαρα” X.Cyn.5.11; “τὰ ὄμματα” Hp.Epid.7.83; “τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς” LXX(v. καμμύω）“; τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς ὄμμα” Ph.1.645, cf. 2.414; “κ. τῷ νοερῷ ὄμματι” M.Ant.4.29: more freq. alone, close the eyes, Str.6.1.14; “κ. ὑπ᾽ ἐκπλήξεως” Philostr.VA6.11: hence, drop asleep, doze, Batr. l. c., Ar.V.92: euphem. for καταθνῄσκειν, Luc.DMeretr.7.2, D.L.4.49. [υ_ in pres., Hedyl. ap. Ath.8.345a: in aor., Batr. l. c.; v. μύω.]
καταμύω , Ep. aor. inf. καμμῦσαι v.l. in Batr.191; καμμύειν, aor. ἐκάμμυσα, etc., also in later Gr.,
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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