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|Definition=[ῑ], used by early writers only in pres.: fut.<br><span class="bld">A</span> ὠδῑνήσω [[LXX]] ''Hb.''3.10: aor. ὤδῑνα ''AP''7.561 (Jul.Aeg.), Opp.''C.''1.5, Jul.''Or.''2.56d; ὠδίνησα [[LXX]] ''Ps.''7.15:—so aor. Med. and Pass., <b class="b3">ὠδινησάμην, -ήθην</b>, Aq.''Ps.''113(114).7, ''Pr.''8.25to :—[[have the pains of childbirth]], [[be in travail]], ὡς δ' ὅταν ὠδίνουσαν ἔχῃ βέλος ὀξὺ γυναῖκα Il.11.269; ὠδίνειν [[τρομέω]]· χαλεπὸν [[βέλος]] [[Εἰλειθυία]]ς Theoc.27.29, cf. Ar.''Th.''502, ''Ec.''529, Hp.''Epid.''5.25, Pl.''R.''395e, etc.<br><span class="bld">2</span> c. acc., to [[be in travail of]] a child, [[bring forth]], E.''IA''1234, [[LXX]] ''Ca.''8.5: of animals, ὠ. νεοττούς Ael.''NA'' 2.46: [[proverb|prov.]], [[ὤδινεν ὄρος καί ἔτεκεν μῦν]] = [[the mountain was in labour, then it gave birth to a mouse]] Luc.''Hist.Conscr.''23.<br><span class="bld">II</span> metaph. of any great pain, to [[be in travail]] or [[be in anguish]], of the [[Cyclops]], στενάχων τε καὶ ὠδίνων ὀδύνῃσι Od.9.415; Κύπριδι ''AP''7.30 (Antip.Sid.); [[labour painfully]], <b class="b3">ὠδίνουσι μέλισσαι</b> ib.9.363.22 (Mel.(?)); of the [[mind]], to [[be in the throes]] or [[be in the agonies of thought]], [[Plato|Pl.]]''[[Theaetetus|Tht.]]''148e, al.; <b class="b3">κυοῦμέν τε καὶ ὠ. περὶ ἐπιστήμης</b> ib.210b; ὑπὲρ δισσῶν μίαν ὠδίνειν ψυχήν E.''Hipp.'' 258 (anap.); <b class="b3">ὥστε μ' ὠδίνειν τί φῄς</b> what you mean, [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Ajax|Aj.]]''794, cf. E. ''Heracl.''644; <b class="b3">ὠδίνειν εἴς τι</b> to [[long painfully]] for a thing, Hld.5.32: c. inf., Id.2.21, Him.''Ecl.''13.38, ''Or.''4.1: c. acc., Hld.10.31; ἔξοδον Chor.42.20 p.517 F.-R.<br><span class="bld">b</span> [[worry]], [[fuss]], ὠδίνοντα μήποτε λήγειν περὶ τοῦ σώματος Pl.''R.''407c.<br><span class="bld">2</span> c. acc., to [[be in travail with]], συμφορᾶς βάρος S.''Tr.''325; τὴν καύχησιν τὴν σοφιστικήν Epicur.''Fr.'' 93, cf. ''AP''9.578 (Leo Phil.) (where [[ὧν]] is in the case of the anteced. by attraction).<br><span class="bld">3</span> Causal, [[cause to quiver]], as in [[travail]], φωνὴ βροντῆς ὠδίνησε γῆν [[LXX]] ''Si.''43.17(18) cod.Alex.