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ἀλγέω

algeo

feel bodily pain, suffer

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Where it lives

Densest 12 of 58 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἀλγ-έω · alg-eō — LSJ

feel bodily pain, suffer, smarting with pain, suffer, be ill

feel bodily pain, suffer, ἀλγήσας smarting with pain, Il. 2.269, etc.; suffer, be ill, Hdt. 4.68; more fully, ἀλγήσας ὀδύνῃσι Il. 12.206: suffering part in acc., ἄλγησον ἧπαρ A. Eu. 135; τὰς γνάθους ἀλγήσετε Ar. Pax 237; τὸν δάκτυλον Pl. R. 462d; τὰ ὄμματα ib. 515e.

2 suffer hardship

suffer hardship, ἢ ἁλὸς ἢ ἐπὶ γῆς ἀλγήσετε Od. l.c.

II feel pain of mind, grieve, to be pained at

feel pain of mind, grieve, ἀ. ψυχήν, φρένα, Hdt. 3.43, E. Or. 608, etc.; ἀ. τινί to be pained at a thing, Hdt. 3.120, S. OC 744, etc.; ἐπʼ ἐξειργασμένοις Id. Aj. 377, etc.; διά τι Hdt. 4.68; περί τι or τινος, Th. 2.65, E. Andr. 240: c. gen., ἀλγεῖν χρὴ τύχης παλιγκότου A. Ag. 571, cf. E. Hec. 1256: c. acc., ἀλγῶ μὲν ἔργα A. Ch. 1016; πρᾶξιν ἢν ἤλγησʼ ἐγώ S. Aj. 790: c. part., ἤλγησʼ ἀκούσας Hdt. 3.50, A. Pers. 844; ἀλγῶ κλύων S. Ph. 86; ὁρῶν Eup. 117.2 : abs., τὸ ἀλγοῦν, opp. τὸ ἡδόμενον, Epicur

III

Pass., ὑποχόνδριον -ούμενον Hp. Coac. 273; τὸν ἀλγούμενον ὀδόντα Dsc. Eup. 1.66.

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