ἕλκειν
From LSJ
Έγ', ὦ ταλαίπωρ', αὐτὸς ὧν χρείᾳ πάρει. Τὰ πολλὰ γάρ τοι ῥήματ' ἢ τέρψαντά τι, ἢ δυσχεράναντ', ἢ κατοικτίσαντά πως, παρέσχε φωνὴν τοῖς ἀφωνήτοις τινά –> Wretched brother, tell him what you need. A multitude of words can be pleasurable, burdensome, or they can arouse pity somehow — they give a kind of voice to the voiceless.
Greek > English (Woodhouse Verbs Reversed)
(see also ἑλκέω, ἕλκω): attract, drag, draw, entice, inhale, pull, quaff, worry, drink off, in physical sense, like a dog, quaff a drink
Lexicon Thucydideum
trahere, to drag, draw, 1.50.1,
item likewise 2.90.6. et and 4.14.1.
PASS. 2.90.6, ἑλκεχίτων, longam tunicam habens, wearing a long tunic, 3.104.4 (ex Hom. H. Ap. from Homer's Hymn to Apollo).
