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|mdlsjtxt=[from Root !λιπ]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> [[trans]].,<br /><b class="num">1.</b> to [[leave]], [[quit]], Hom., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[leave]] [[behind]], [[leave]] at [[home]], Hom., etc.; esp. of [[dying]] men, to [[leave]] (as a [[legacy]]), Il., etc.:— so in Mid. to [[leave]] [[behind]] one, as a [[memorial]], Hdt., etc.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> to [[leave]], [[forsake]], [[abandon]], [[desert]], [[leave]] in the [[lurch]], Il., etc.; λ. ἐράνους to [[fail]] in paying… , Dem.; so, λ. δασμόν, φοράν Xen.:—[[conversely]], λίπον ἰοὶ ἄνακτα the arrows failed him, Od.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> intr. to be [[gone]], to be [[wanting]], [[cease]], be [[missing]], Lat. [[deficio]], Soph., Eur., etc.<br />B. Pass. to be [[left]], [[left]] [[behind]], Hom., etc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[remain]], [[remain]] [[over]] and [[above]], Il., Hdt., etc.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> to [[remain]] [[alive]], Od.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> c. gen. to be [[left]] without, to be [[forsaken]] of, σοῦ λελειμμένη Soph.;— but, λελειμμένος [[δορός]] [[left]] by the [[spear]], i. e. not [[slain]], Aesch.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> to be [[left]] [[behind]] in a [[race]], Il.; λελειμμένος οἰῶν [[lingering]] [[behind]] the [[sheep]], Od.; ἐς [[δίσκουρα]] [[λέλειπτο]] he had been [[left]] [[behind]] as [[much]] as a [[quoit]]'s [[throw]], Il.; τοῦ [[κήρυκος]] μὴ λείπεσθαι not to be [[behind]] the [[herald]], Thuc.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> to [[come]] [[short]] of, be [[inferior]], [[worse]], weaker or [[less]] [[than]], τινος Hdt., [[attic]]; λέλειψαι τῶν ἐμῶν βουλευμάτων you [[come]] [[short]] of, [[understand]] not my plans, Eur.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> λείπεσθαι ἀπό τινος to [[keep]] [[aloof]] from one, Il.; λ. βασιλέος or ἀπὸ βασιλέος to [[desert]] the [[king]], Hdt.:—absol. to [[keep]] [[aloof]], be [[absent]], Il.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> to be [[wanting]] or [[lacking]] in a [[thing]], ὀδυρμάτων ἐλείπετ' [[οὐδέν]] Soph., etc.

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