λυ?ω , ipf. ἔλυον, λύε, fut. λυ?σω, aor. ἔλυ_σα, λῦσεν,
mid. aor. ἐλυ?σαο, inf. λυ?σασθαι, aor. 2, w. pass. signif., λύτο, λύντο, pass. perf. λέλυμαι, opt. λελῦτο, aor.
λύθη, 3 pl. λύθεν: I. act., loose, loosen, set free, of
undoing garments, ropes, Il. 4.215,
Od. 11.245, Od. 2.415; unharnessing horses, Od. 4.35; of freeing from bonds or
captivity (said of the captor), Il.
1.20; pass., of anything giving way, coming apart, Il. 2.135, Od.
22.186; fig., in senses answering to those enumerated, τινὰ κακότητος, ‘deliver’
from misery; ἀγορήν,
‘dismiss’; so λύτο δ᾽
ἀγών; and with reference to emotion, or fainting, death,
λύτο γούνατα καὶ φίλον ἦτορ,
‘gave way,’ ‘sank,’
‘quaked’ (sometimes the act., Od. 20.118); of sleep
‘relaxing’ the limbs, or
‘dissolving’ cares, Od.
4.794, Il. 23.62; of
‘undoing’ (destroying) cities, Il. 2.118.—III. mid.,
loose or undo oneself, Od. 9.463, or something of one's own,
get loosed or released, ransom;
λυ_σόμενος θύγατρα, said of the father,
Il. 1.13; cf. the act., v.
20.