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ἐκλανθάνω

eklanthano

escape notice utterly

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Where it lives

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What it meant

ἐκλανθάνω · eklanthanō — LSJ

escape notice utterly, forget utterly, forgettest, entirely

escape notice utterly:—Med., forget utterly, c. gen. rei, ἐκ χόλω τῶδε λαθοίμεθα Alc. Supp. 23.9; τοῦδʼ ἐκλανθάνει thou forgettest this entirely, S. OC 1005; ἐγλαθόμενος τῆς εὐθύνης POxy. 1203.8 (i A.D.), cf. Ph. 1.247, al.; ἐ. ὅτι.. Pl. Ax. 369e.

II

causal in pres. ἐκληθάνω, with aor. 1 ἐξέλησα, Aeol. ἐξέλᾱσα (v. infr.): Ep. redupl. aor. 2 ἐκλέλᾰθον:

1 make, quite forgetful of, made, quite forget

Act., make one quite forgetful of a thing, c. gen. rei, ἐκ δέ με πάντων ληθάνει ὅσσʼ ἔπαθον Od. 7.220; ἔκ μʼ ἔλᾱσας ἀλγέων Alc. 95 : c. acc. rei, ἐκλέλαθον κιθαριστύν made him quite forget his harping, Il. 2.600 : abs., Ἀΐδας ὁ ἐκλελάθων (redupl. pres.) Theoc. 1.63.

2 forget utterly

Med. and Pass., forget utterly, ὀϊζύος ἐκλελαθέσθαι Il. 6.285; ἀικῆς ἐξελάθοντο 16.602; ὡς ἐκλέλησμαί γʼ ἃ πάρος εἴπομεν E. Ba. 1272 : c. inf., ἐκλάθετο..καταβῆναι Od. 10.557; λελάθοντο.., οὐ μὰν ἐκλελάθοντʼ Sapph. 93.

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