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Έγ', ὦ ταλαίπωρ', αὐτὸς ὧν χρείᾳ πάρει. Τὰ πολλὰ γάρ τοι ῥήματ' ἢ τέρψαντά τι, ἢ δυσχεράναντ', ἢ κατοικτίσαντά πως, παρέσχε φωνὴν τοῖς ἀφωνήτοις τινά –> Wretched brother, tell him what you need. A multitude of words can be pleasurable, burdensome, or they can arouse pity somehow — they give a kind of voice to the voiceless.
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English (LSJ)
A surround and take fish with a drag-net (σαγήνη), Lib.Or.11.258: metaph., sweep the whole population off the face of a country by forming a line and marching over it, a Persian practice, σ. ἀνθρώπους Hdt.6.31, Str.10.1.10, cf. D.L.3.33 (Pass.); ὥσπερ ἐν δικτύοις σεσαγηνευμένοι Hdn.4.9.6; σ. Σάμον sweep it clear of men, Hdt.3.149; so [ὡς] συνάψαντες . . τὰς χεῖρας σαγηνεύσαιεν πᾶσαν τὴν Ἐρετρικὴν οἱ στρατιῶται τοῦ Δάτιδος Pl.Lg.698d, cf. App.Mith.67, Philostr.VA1.23. 2 generally, catch as in a net, [σοφισταὶ] σ. τὼς νέως Lysis ap.Iamb.VP17.76, cf. Luc.Tim.25; σαγηνευθεὶς ὑπ' ἔρωτι AP11.52, cf. Hld.1.9; of Ares and Aphrodite, Luc.Gall.3, DDeor.15.3.
