αὐχέω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=chiefly pres. and impf. [[ηὔχουν]], <span class="bld">A</span> fut. αὐχήσω E.''Fr.''857, Luc. ''DMort.''22.2, ''AP''7.373 (Thall.): aor. ηὔχησα ib.6.283, 15.4, Apollod. 2.4.3: ([[αὔχη]]):—[[boast]], [[plume oneself]], ἐπί τινι on a thing, Batr.57, ''AP''6.283; τινί E.''IA''412: with neut. Adj., τοσοῦτον αὐχεῖν [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]7.103; μέγ' αὐ. E.''Heracl.''353 (lyr.); μηδὲν τόδ' αὔχει Id.''Andr.''463; μεγάλα ''Ep.Jac.''3.5: c. acc. objecti, to [[boast of]], ἀστέρας ''AP''7.373 (Thall.).<br><span class="bld">II</span> c. acc. et inf., [[boast]] or [[declare]] [[loudly]] that... αὐχέοντες κάλλιστα τιθέναι ἀγῶνα [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]2.160; ἀπεῶσθαι Th.2.39; [[σώσειν]] ([[σῶσαι]] codd.) E.''Andr.''311, cf. ''Ba.''310: c. acc. only, <b class="b3">αὐχῶ Σεβήραν</b> [[boast]] (that I hold her), ''IG''14.2001, cf. 3.172.<br><span class="bld">2</span> c. inf. fut., [[say confidently]], to [[be proudly confident]] that, αὐχῶ γὰρ αὐχῶ τήνδε δωρεὰν ἐμοὶ δώσειν Δί' [[Aeschylus|A.]]''[[Prometheus Vinctus|Pr.]]''340, cf. 688 (lyr.), ''Pers.''741, Cratin. I with a neg., <b class="b3">οὐ γάρ ποτ' ηὔχουν… μεθέξειν</b> I never [[thought]] that... A.''Ag.''506, cf. ''Eu.''561 (lyr.), E.''Heracl.''931.<br><span class="bld">III</span> Med., αὐχήσασθαι· καυχήσασθαι, [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]—Never in S. ([[ἐπαυχέω]], [[ἐξαυχέω]], ''El.''65, ''Ant.''390); rare in Com. and Prose.