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χαλέπτω

chalepto

oppress, crush

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What it meant — LSJ

oppress, crush

causal of χαλεπαίνω I.2, oppress, crush, εἴρεσθαι δὲ θεῶν ὅστις σε χαλέπτει Od. 4.423; ῥέα δὲ βριάοντα χαλέπτει Hes. Op. 5; πιέζειν καὶ χ. Plu. Frat. 2.487b.

2 wound

wound, τινὰ ἰῷ Dosiad. l.c.

II provoke, enrage, to be angry, with, for, enraged at

provoke, enrage, Κύπριδα AP 5.262 (Agath.):—Med., to be angry, χαλεψαμένης Ἀφροδίτης D.P. 484, cf. A.R. 1.1341; τισι Nic. Th. 309; χαλέπτεσθαί τινί τινος with one for a thing, App. BC 3.43; χαλεψάμενός τινί τινος ib. 3.7; τινι alone, 2.29, al.; χαλέπτεο πένθεϊ θυμόν QS. 3.780:—Pass., χαλεφθείς τινι enraged at one, v.l. in Thgn. 155; μὴ χαλεφθῇς ἐμοί S. Ichn. 328 (lyr.); σύγγνωθί μοι καὶ μὴ χαλεφθῇς Com.Adesp. 281.

III to be angry, vexed, at

intr. in Act., to be angry, vexed, τινι at a person or thing, Bion Fr. 11.2.:—Poet. and late Prose.

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