ὀδύρομαι: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[ῡ], mostly used in pres. and impf., Ep. impf. [[ὀδύρετο]], [[ὀδύροντο]] (without augm.), Ion. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> ὀδυρέσκετο <span class="bibl">Hdt.3.119</span> : fut. ὀδῠροῦμαι <span class="bibl">D.21.186</span>, and prob. l. <span class="bibl">Isoc.18.35</span> : aor. ὠδῡράμην <span class="bibl">Id.12.9</span>, <span class="bibl">Theoc.1.75</span> (cf. [[ἀνοδύρομαι]]); part. ὀδῡράμενος <span class="bibl">Il. 24.48</span> : aor. Pass. κατωδύρθην Plu.2.117f.—In Trag. the form δύρομαι is required by the metre in <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>273</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pers.</span>582</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span> 1218</span> (lyr., <b class="b3">ὀδ-</b> codd.), <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hec.</span>740</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Med.</span>159</span> (lyr., <b class="b3">ὀδ-</b> codd.), and prob. in <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Andr.</span>397</span>, v. infr. <span class="bibl">4</span>; in <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1762</span>, <span class="bibl">Apollod.Com.8</span>, [[ὀδύρομαι]] is necessary; elsewhere either form is possible :—[[lament]], [[bewail]], a person or thing : </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">1</span> c. acc. pers., ὀδυρομένη φίλα τέκνα <span class="bibl">Il.2.315</span>; Ἕκτορα δάκρυ χέοντες ὀδύροντο <span class="bibl">24.714</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>1439</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ant.</span> 693</span> : less freq. c. acc. rei, <b class="b3">ὁ δ' ὀδύρετο πατρίδα γαῖαν</b> [[mourned for]] it, i.e. for the want of it, <span class="bibl">Od.13.219</span>; so νόστον ὀ. <span class="bibl">5.153</span>, <span class="bibl">13.379</span>; προπηλακίσεις <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>329b</span>; δυστυχίας <span class="bibl">Isoc.4.169</span>; πάθη <span class="bibl">D.18.41</span>; οὐκ ὠδύραντο . . τὴν προκαταστροφήν <span class="bibl">Epicur.<span class="title">Sent.</span>40</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> c. gen. pers., [[mourn for]], [[for the sake of]] . ., ὡς δὲ πατὴρ οὗ παιδὸς ὀ. <span class="bibl">Il.23.222</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">22.424</span>, <span class="bibl">Od.4.104</span>, etc.; ὑπέρ τινος <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">R.</span>387d</span>; ἐπὶ πᾶσι <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">VV</span>1251b21</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">ὀ. τινί</b> [[wail]] or [[lament to]] or [[before]], ἐξελθὼν λαιοῖσιν ὀ. <span class="bibl">Od.4.740</span>; <b class="b3">ἀλλήλοισιν ὀδύρονται</b> [[wail aloud]] one to another, <span class="bibl">Il.2.290</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> abs., [[wail]], [[mourn]], freq. in Hom., in part., -όμενος στεναχίζω <span class="bibl">Od.9.13</span>; στοναχῇ τε γόῳ τε ἧσται ὀ. <span class="bibl">16.145</span>; ὀ. κατὰ θυμόν <span class="bibl">18.203</span>; <b class="b3">τίταῦτ' ὀδύρομαι</b>; why [[mourn]] I thus? <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Andr.</span>397</span> (where Pors. restores <b class="b3">ταῦτα δύρομαι</b> for the caesura); θρηνοῦντός τε μου καὶ ὀδυρομένου <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Ap.</span>38d</span>, cf. Phld.<span class="title">Rh.</span>1.381 S., etc.</span>