refusal
From LSJ
ὦ παῖδες Ἑλλήνων ἴτε ἐλευθεροῦτε πατρίδ', ἐλευθεροῦτε δὲ παῖδας, γυναῖκας, θεῶν τέ πατρῴων ἕδη, θήκας τε προγόνων: νῦν ὑπὲρ πάντων ἀγών. → O children of the Greeks, go, free your homeland, free also your children, your wives, the temples of your fathers' gods, and the tombs of your ancestors: now the struggle is for all things.
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
refusal to give: P. and V. φθόνος, ὁ, V. φθόνησις, ἡ.
avoidance: P. and V. φυγή, ἡ; see avoidance.
meet with a refusal: P. διαμαρτάνειν (Dem. 401).
you shall meet with no refusal at my hands: V. οὐκ ἄτιμος ἔκ γ' ἐμοῦ φανεῖ (Soph., Oedipus Coloneus 51).
