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lao2
seize, hold
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λάω · laō — LSJ
seize, hold, κύων ἔχε ποικίλον ἐλλόν, ἀσπαίροντα λάων gripping it as it struggled, Od. 19.229; ὁ μὲν λάε νεβρὸν ἀπάγχων gripped the fawn as he was throttling it, ib. 230.—Also expld. by ἀπολαυστικῶς ἔχων (Aristarch.) or ἀπολαυστικῶς ἐσθίων (Sch., Hsch. s.v. λάων, who refers it alternatively to λάω (A), but also has λάε· ἐψόφησεν, οἱ δὲ ἐφθέγγετο; cf. λαήμεναι· φθέγγεσθαι, Cyr.).
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