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δειδίσσομαι , later δεδίσσομαι , Att. δειγμα^τό-ττομαι : impf.
A.“ἐδεδίσκετο” Ar.Lys.564: fut. “-ίξομαι” Il.20.201: aor. 1 inf. δειδίξασθαι (v. infr.), “δεδίξασθαι” Hsch.; part. “δεδιξάμενος” D.19.291:—causal of δείδω, frighten, alarm, “μὴ . . δειδίσσεο λαὸν Ἀχαιῶν” Il.4.184, cf. 13.810, Pl. Phdr.245b, Luc.Bis Acc.7, etc.; “μὴ δή μ᾽ ἐπέεσσι . . ἔλπεο δειδίξεσθαι” Il.20.201, cf. Hes.Sc.111; Ἕκτορα . . ἀπὸ νεκροῦ δειδίξασθαι to scare him away from the corpse, Il.18.164 (in 2.190 οὔ σε ἔοικε, κακὸν ὥς, δειδίσσεσθαι it may be taken in either sense, cf. 15.196): c. inf., “φευγέμεν ἂψ ὀπίσω δειδίσσετο” Theoc.25.74, D.19.291, Prooem.43, D.H.1.71, al.; cf. “δεδίσκομαι” 11.
II. intr., fear, ἢν ἡ γυνὴ . . δειδίσσηται (v.l. διδ-) Hp.Mul.1.25; “μὴ . . λίην δειδίσσεο θυμῷ” A.R. 2.1219, cf. Plu.Dio57: c. acc., to be afraid of, Orph.A.56, etc.: aor. “δειδισάμενος” App.BC5.79; “τὴν αὐγήν” Aret.CA1.1; “τὸν ἄνδρα” Luc. Sol.5.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (17):
    • Demosthenes, Exordia, 43
    • Demosthenes, On the False Embassy, 291
    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 111
    • Homer, Iliad, 13.810
    • Homer, Iliad, 15.196
    • Homer, Iliad, 18.164
    • Homer, Iliad, 20.201
    • Homer, Iliad, 2.190
    • Homer, Iliad, 4.184
    • Plato, Phaedrus, 245b
    • Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2.1219
    • Aristophanes, Lysistrata, 564
    • Aretaeus, De curatione acutorum morborum libri duo, 1.1
    • Plutarch, Dion, 57
    • Lucian, Soleocista, 5
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 1.71
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, 11
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