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|Definition=<span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[stretch still further]]: metaph., [[contend more earnestly]], <span class="bibl">Id.3.24.14</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[intensify still more]], τὴν παροῦσαν ἐπιθυμίαν Phld. <span class="title">Rh.</span>2.290S.; τὸ δίψος Plu.2.689e; τὴν καλὴν νεανιείαν <span class="bibl">Ph.2.306</span>; τὴν ὀργήν <span class="bibl">J.<span class="title">BJ</span>7.3.3</span>:—intr., of fevers, Gal.7.859:—Pass., of wind, <span class="bibl">Ph. 2.99</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">II</span> [[impose severer terms upon]], τοὺς Καρχηδονίους <span class="bibl">Plb.1.63.2</span>: abs., <b class="b3">π. ταῖς βασάνοις</b> [[use severer]] tortures, <span class="bibl">D.S.10.18</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> intr., to [[be prolonged]], Orib.<span class="title">Fr.</span>74.</span>