ληΐζομαι: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Ep. and Ion., Hes.''Op.''702, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]4.112; λῄζομαι, X.''HG'' 5.1.1, ''AP''9.410 (Tull. Sab.), etc.: also [[λεΐζομαι]], ib.6.169; Att. impf.<br><span class="bld">A</span> ἐλῃζόμην Th.1.24, etc.: Ep. fut. ληΐσσομαι Od.23.357: aor. ἐληϊσάμην [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.47, And.1.101; Ep. [[ληΐσσατο]] Il.18.28; Att. [[ἐλῄσατο]] E.''Tr.''866: pf. in pass. sense [[λέλῃσμαι]], v. infr. ''ΙΙ'':—[[seize]], [[carry off as booty]], either men or things, <b class="b3">δμῳαὶ ἃς Ἀχιλεὺς ληΐσσατο</b> Il.l.c., cf. Od.1.398, 23.357, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.47, 4.110, al.: <b class="b3">ἐκ δόμων δάμαρτα… ἐλῄσατο</b> E.l.c.; ἐκ τῆς Ἀττικῆς X.''HG''5.1.1, etc.: generally, [[win]], [[acquire]], ὄλβον ἀπὸ γλώσσης ληΐσσεται Hes.''Op.''322; <b class="b3">οὐ γάρ τι γυναικὸς ἀνὴρ ληΐζετ' ἄμεινον τῆς ἀγαθῆς</b> ib.702, cf. Semon.6.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[plunder]], [[despoil]], esp. by raids or forays, ἀλλήλους Th.1.5, cf. 3.85, 5.115, And.1.101, etc.; τὴν Κολχίδα X.''An.''4.8.23; τὴν θάλατταν [[Diodorus Siculus|D.S.]]11.88, Jul.''Or.''7.210a: metaph., λ. τὴν τῶν ζῴων φύσιν Pl.''Epin.''976a.<br><span class="bld">3</span> abs., [[plunder]], ''SIG''38''B'' 20 (Teos, v B.C.), [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]4.112, Lys.20.24 (prob.), etc.<br><span class="bld">II</span> Act. [[ληΐζω]] occurs in several Mss. of Th.3.85, and all Mss. of Id.4.41:—so in Pass., to [[be carried off]], ἐκ γῆς βαρβάρου λελῃσμένη [[Euripides|E.]], ''[[Medea|Med.]]'' 256; γυναικὸς… οὐ βίᾳ λελῃσμένης Id.''Tr.''373; ληϊσθεῖσα A.R. 4.400; <b class="b3">οὔ τί που λελῄσμεθ' ἐξ ἄντρων λέχος</b>; I [[have]] not surely [[had]] my wife [[carried off]]... E.''Hel.''475; [[ληϊζόμενος]] [[robbed]], Luc.''Gall.''14.