disturb
σταγόνες ὕδατος πέτρας κοιλαίνουσιν → constant dropping wears away a stone, constant dripping will wear away the hardest stone, little strokes fell big oaks, constant dripping wears the stone, constant dropping wears the stone, constant dripping will wear away a stone
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb transitive
meddle with: P. and V. κινεῖν, V. ἐκκινεῖν.
rouse from sleep: P. and V. ἐγειρειν, ἐξεγείρειν, Ar. and P. ἐπεγείρειν.
trouble: P. and V. ταράσσειν, θράσσειν (Plato but rare P.), ὄχλον παρέχω, ὄχλον παρέχειν (dat.), Ar. and P. ἐνοχλεῖν (acc. or dat.), πράγματα παρέχω, πράγματα παρέχειν (dat.), V. ὀχλεῖν, Ar. and V. στροβεῖν, κλονεῖν; see distress, agitate.
disturb the constitution, be revolutionary: P. νεωτερίζειν.
disturbed by haunting terrors of the night: V. ἐκ νυκτιπλάγκτων δειμάτων πεπαλμένη (Aesch., choe. 524).
