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ἀμηχαν-έω

amechaneo

to be ἀμήχανος, to be at a loss for

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What it meant

ἀμηχαν-έω · amēchan-eō — LSJ

to be ἀμήχανος, to be at a loss for, in want of, about

to be ἀμήχανος, to be at a loss for, or in want of, χρήματος οὐδενός Hdt. 1.35, cf. A.R. 4.692; ἀ. περί τινος about thing, E. IT 734: c. acc., τέρμα A. Ag. 1177, etc.; ταῦτα E. Heracl. 492: c. dat., ἀ. θεσφάτοισι A. Ag. 1113:—freq. foll. by relative clause, ἀ. πότερον . . ἤ . . S. Ph. 337; ἀ. ὅπᾳ τράπωμαι, ὅποι τράποιντο, A. Ag. 1530, Pers. 458: abs., A. Supp. 379, S. El. 1174, E. Andr. 983, Epicur. Fr. 203, etc.

2 not to know how, know not how

c. inf., not to know how to do, ὄσσαν συμβαλεῖν ἀμηχανῶ Neophr. 1; χρόνος . . ὃν λανθάνειν ἀ. know not how to escape, Antiph. 254.

3 without the necessaries of life, to be reduced to great straits

ἀμηχανῶν βιοτεύειν live without the necessaries of life, X. Cyr. 2.1.19; to be reduced to great straits, τὰ μὲν ἀπορεῖν, τὰ δʼ ἔτι ἀμηχανήσειν Th. 7.48.

4 to be at a loss, amazed, perplexed, at

to be at a loss, amazed, perplexed, ἀ. κιόντων at their coming, A.R. 4.692; so prob. ἀ. κακότητι 2.410.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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