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μεθύω

methuo

to be drunken with wine

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Where it lives

Against Simon 2 · 9.18/10k
1 Thessalonians 1 · 6.88/10k
Joel 1 · 6.49/10k
Against Conon 2 · 6.31/10k
Fragments 2 · 5.02/10k
On the Murder of Eratosthenes 1 · 4.16/10k
Symposium 6 · 3.44/10k
Knights 3 · 3.38/10k
De Somno et Vigilia 1 · 3.36/10k
First Philippic 1 · 3.05/10k
Symposium 2 · 2.1/10k
Critias 1 · 2.02/10k

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What it meant

μεθύω · methyō — LSJ

to be drunken with wine, drunkenness

to be drunken with wine, νευστάζων κεφαλῇ, μεθύοντι ἐοικώς Od. 18.240; μεθύων, opp. νήφων, Thgn. 478, 627, cf. Alc. Supp. 4.12, Pi. Fr. 128, Ar. Pl. 1048, PHal. 1.193 (iii B. C.), etc.; μ. ὑπὸ τοῦ οἴνου X. Smp. 2.26; τὸ μεθύειν drunkenness, Antiph. 187.2, Alex. 43; τὸ μ. πημονῆς λυτήριον S. Fr. 758.

metaph.,

1 to be drenched, steeped

of things, to be drenched, steeped in any liquid, c. dat., e.g. βοείην . . μεθύουσαν ἀλοιφῇ Il. 17.390; μεθύων ἐλαίῳ λύχνος Babr. 114.1; [χείμαρρος] ὄμβροισι μ. AP 9.277 (Antiphil.).

2 to be intoxicated

of persons, to be intoxicated with passion, pride, etc., ὑπὸ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης X. Smp. 8.21; ὑπὸ τρυφῆς Pl. Criti. 121a; ἔρωτι Anacr. 19; τῷ μεγέθει τῶν πεπραγμένων D. 4.49; περὶ τὰς ἡδονάς Philostr. VS 1.22.1; οὐ μ. τὴν φρόνησιν Alex. 301; μ. τὸ φίλημα AP 5.304.

b to be stupefied, stunned

to be stupefied, stunned, πληγαῖς μεθύων Theoc. 22.98; ἐξ ὀδυνάων Opp. H. 5.228, cf. Nonn. l.c.

In the wild

μεθύων · methyōn Aristophanes, Acharnians 1165 (DIORISIS sentence 896)
μεθυόντων · methyontōn Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae (DIORISIS sentence 100)
μεθύων · methyōn Aristophanes, Frogs 713–717
μεθύων · methyōn Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 1014)
μεθύων · methyōn Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 78)
μεθύων · methyōn Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 92)

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