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μογέω

mogeo

sich abmühen, mit Mühe bestehen, erdulden, erleiden

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Where it lives

Prometheus Bound 2 · 3.4/10k
Odyssey 27 · 3.11/10k
Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Lysistrata 1 · 1.26/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Iliad 6 · 0.54/10k

What it meant

1. μογέω · mogeō — Frisk

μογέω, μογῆσαι (ep. poet. seit Il.), ganz vereinzelt mit συν-, &v-, Ptz. Perf. μεμογηώς (Nik.) ‘sich abmühen, mit Mühe bestehen, erdulden, erleiden’. — Daneben μόγος m. “Mühe, Mühsal, Anstrengung’ (sehr spärliche Belege seit 4 27). Als Vorderglied in μομοσ-τόκο: Beiwort der Geburtshelferinnen Eileithyia 248 μόϑος (Π.) und Artemis (Theok.), auch von ὠδῖνες (Lyk.), vom trojanischen Pferd (Tryph. Ep.), von ὥρα u.a. … — [Frisk, s.v. μογέω, p. 1219]

2. μογ-έω · mog-eō — LSJ

toil, suffer, suffers, tired, with pain, trouble, hardly

poet. Verb, toil, suffer, in Hom. usu. with a cogn. acc., ὅσσα γε . . θεῶν ἰότητι μόγησα Od. 7.214; μάλα πόλλʼ ἔπαθον καὶ πολλʼ ἐμόγησα Il. 9.492; πολλὰ μογήσας 2.690, etc.; τῷ ἔπʼ ἄλγεα πολλὰ μογήσῃ for whom he suffers . . , Od. 16.19, cf. Il. 1.162; ὅσα . . ἐμόγησεν ἀμφʼ ἐμοί Od. 4.152; εἵνεκʼ ἐμεῖο πολέας ἐμόγησεν ἀέθλους ib. 170, cf. Hes. Th. 997, Thgn. 71: abs. in part., ἐξ ἔργων μογέοντες tired after work, Od. 24.388: hence nearly = μόγις, with pain or trouble, hardly, μογέων ἀποκινήσασκε

2 suffer pain, be distressed, in, lost

in Trag., suffer pain, be distressed, συμπονήσατε τῷ νῦν μογοῦντι A. Pr. 277; μὴ παίσας μογῇς Id. Ag. 1624; μογοῦντα πλευρά in the side, E. Alc. 849: c. dat., δυστοκίαις μ. Call. Del. 242 (-τοκέες codd.); κέντρῳ Nic. Th. 830: metaph., χαλκοῖο πάλαι μεμογηότος ἄνθην having lost its sheen, Id. Al. 529.

II labour at

trans., labour at, ὁ λιθουργὸς . . ἐμόγησε κόρας Posidipp. ap. Tz. H. 7.662.

In the wild

μογῇς · mogēis Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1624
μογοῦσιν · mogousin Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 602–603
μογοῦντι · mogounti Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 276
μογίομες · mogiomes Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1003 (DIORISIS sentence 805)
μογήσας · mogēsas Theogony 997–999
μόγησα · mogēsa Iliad 1.162

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Where it came from

Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. μογέω (scan pp. 1219-1220; entry #3918).

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