The corpus record

ἀλγ-ύνω

alguno

pain, grieve, distress

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Where it lives

Apology 1 · 5/10k
Philoctetes 3 · 3.41/10k
Trachiniae 2 · 2.75/10k
Antigone 2 · 2.73/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 2 · 2.24/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 2 · 2.16/10k
Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
Enneads 4 · 0.19/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἀλγ-ύνω · alg-ynō — LSJ

pain, grieve, distress, feel, suffer pain, be grieved, distressed

pain, grieve, distress, τινά A. Ch. 746, etc.:—Pass., feel, suffer pain, be grieved or distressed at a thing, τινί S. Ant. 468; νόσοις X. l.c.; ἐπί τινι E. Tr. 172; τι S. Ph. 1021; εἰσιδοῦσά τʼ ἠλγύνθην κέαρ A. Pr. 247.

In the wild

ἤλγυνεν · ēlgynen Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 744–746
ἠλγύνθην · ēlgynthēn Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 246–247
ἀλγύνει · algynei Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 357
ἀλγύνουσαν · algynousan Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.5 (DIORISIS sentence 1378)
ἀλγύνεται · algynetai Euripides, Ion (DIORISIS sentence 252)
ἀλγῦναί · algynai Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (DIORISIS sentence 126)

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Where it came from

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