speak at great length, be long-winded
speak at great length, be long-winded, A. Th. 1057, Hp. Nat.Puer. 12, E. Hipp. 704, Th. 1.68, 2.36, Herod. 2.60:—Pass., Porph. Chr. 23.
The corpus record
μακρ-ηγορέω
makregoreo
speak at great length, be long-winded
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Where it lives
- Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
- Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
- History 3 · 0.2/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- μακρηγόρει · makrēgorei Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 1058
- μακρηγορεῖν · makrēgorein Euripides, Phoenissae (DIORISIS sentence 457)
- μακρηγορεῖν · makrēgorein Thucydides, History 1.68.3 (DIORISIS sentence 403)
- μακρηγορεῖν · makrēgorein Thucydides, History 2.36.4 (DIORISIS sentence 1197)
- μακρηγοροίη · makrēgoroiē Thucydides, History 4.59.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2902)
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.