αὐχέω
εἰργόμενον θανάτου καὶ τοῦ ἀνάπηρον ποιῆσαι → excluding death and maiming, short of death or maiming
English (LSJ)
chiefly pres. and impf. ηὔχουν, fut.
A αὐχήσω E.Fr.857, Luc. DMort.22.2, AP7.373 (Thall.): aor. ηὔχησα ib.6.283, 15.4, Apollod. 2.4.3: (αὔχη):—boast, plume oneself, ἐπί τινι on a thing, Batr.57, AP6.283; τινί E.IA412: with neut.Adj., τοσοῦτον αὐχεῖν 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 AP7.373 (Thall.). II c. acc. et inf., boast or declare loudly that... αὐχέοντες κάλλιστα τιθέναι ἀγῶνα Hdt.2.160; ἀπεῶσθαι Th.2.39; σώσειν (σῶσαι codd.) E.Andr.311, cf. Ba.310: c. acc. only, αὐχῶ Σεβήραν boast (that I hold her), IG14.2001, cf. 3.172. 2 c. inf. fut., say confidently, to be proudly confident that, αὐχῶ γὰρ αὐχῶ τήνδε δωρεὰν ἐμοὶ δώσειν Δί' A.Pr.340, cf. 688 (lyr.), Pers.741, Cratin. I with a neg., οὐ γάρ ποτ' ηὔχουν . . μεθέξειν I never thought that... A.Ag.506, cf. Eu.561 (lyr.), E.Heracl.931. III Med., αὐχήσασθαι· καυχήσασθαι, Hsch.— Never in S. (ἐπ-, ἐξ-αυχέω, El.65, Ant.390); rare in Com. and Prose.
German (Pape)
[Seite 405] sich rühmen, absol., Eur. Alc. 95; ἐπί τινι Batrach. 57; τινί Eur. I. A. 412; Hel. 1384; τί Aristid., wie μηδὲν τόδ' αὔχει, frohlocke darüber nicht, Eur. Andr. 464; sogar τοίους ἀστέρας αὐχήσεις Thall. 5 (VII, 373); mit folgdm inf., Her. 2, 160; praes., Thuc. 2, 39; Sp. Bei Aesch. u. Eur. (Soph. hat das Wort gar nicht) = sagen, meinen, mit folgdm acc. c. inf., z. B. πόσον τιν' αὐχεῖσπάταγον ἀσπίδων βρέμειν Heraclid. 832; vgl. Cratin. bei Plut. Cim. 10 ηὔχουν αἰῶνα πάντα συνδιατρίψειν.
