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|mdlsjtxt=[from Root !λαθ]<br />A. in [[most]] of the act. tenses, to [[escape]] [[notice]], to be [[unknown]], [[unseen]], [[unnoticed]]:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> c. acc. pers., λ. τινά only, to [[escape]] his [[notice]], Lat. [[latere]] aliquem, Hom., [[attic]]; impers., σὲ λέληθε it has escaped [[your]] [[notice]], Plat.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[most]] often with a [[part]]. added, in [[which]] [[case]] we [[usually]] [[translate]] the [[part]]. by a Verb, and [[express]] [[λανθάνω]] by an Adverb, unawares, without [[being]] observed, [[unseen]], [[unknown]]; and [[this]], [[either]],<br />a. with an acc. pers., ἄλλον τινὰ [[λήθω]] μαρνάμενος I am [[unseen]] by others [[while]] [[fighting]], i. e. I [[fight]] [[unseen]] by them, Il.; μὴ λάθηι με προσπεσών [[lest]] he [[come]] on [[unseen]] by me, Soph.<br />b. without an acc., μὴ διαφθαρεὶς λάθηι [[lest]] he [[perish]] without [[himself]] [[knowing]] it, Soph.; δουλεύων λέληθας you are a [[slave]] without [[knowing]] it, Ar.—This [[construct]]. is [[reversed]], as in our idiom, ἀπὸ τείχεος [[ἆλτο]] [[λαθών]] (for ἔλαθεν [[ἁλόμενος]]) Il.; λήθουσά μ' ἐξέπινες Soph.<br />B. the compd. Verbs [[ἐκληθάνω]], [[ἐπιλήθω]] (v. sub vocc.), [[take]] a Causal [[sense]], to make one [[forget]] a [[thing]], c. gen. rei: so in redupl. aor2 [[λέλαθον]], [[ὄφρα]] λελάθηι ὀδυνάων that he may [[cause]] him to [[forget]] his pains, Il.<br />C. Mid. and Pass. to let a [[thing]] [[escape]] one, to [[forget]]:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> to [[forget]], absol. or c. gen. rei, Hom.; so in redupl. aor., [[οὐδέ]] [[σέθεν]] θεοὶ λελάθοντο Il., etc.; and in perf. [[pass]]., [[ἐμεῖο]] λελασμένος Il.; κείνου λελῆσθαι Soph.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[forget]] [[purposely]], to [[pass]] [[over]], ἢ λάθετ' ἢ οὐκ ἐνόησεν [[either]] he chose to [[forget]] it or perceived it not, Il.

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