LOGOI

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ὀχλέω

ochleo

move, disturb

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Where it lives

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  • Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
  • Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 1 · 1.9/10k
  • Prometheus Bound 1 · 1.7/10k
  • Economics 1 · 1.61/10k
  • Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
  • Meditations 2 · 0.69/10k
  • Acts 1 · 0.56/10k
  • Nicomachean Ethics 2 · 0.36/10k
  • Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
  • Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

move, disturb, are rolled, swept away

move, disturb, ψηφῖδες ἅπασαι ὀχλεῦνται all the pebbles are rolled or swept away by the water, Il. 21.261.

II trouble, importune, disturb, to be troublesome, irksome, to be troubled, trouble to

generally, trouble, importune, c. acc., Hdt. 5.41; ὀχλεῖς μάτην με A. Pr. 1001; disturb citizens by false alarms, Aen. Tact. 6.1: abs., to be troublesome or irksome, Hp. Epid. 2.1.3, S. OT 446, OGI 262.22 (Baetocaece); ὀ. πρὸς αὐγάς impede the sight, Hp. Prorrh. 1.147 = Coac. 191 (v.l.): freq. in Pap., POxy. 269 ii 4 (i A. D.), etc.:—Pass., to be troubled, ὑπέρ τινος Arist. EN 1167a10, cf. 1171b19; ἀσθενείᾳ σώματος Plb. Fr. 188; ὑπὸ ὑδέρου Hippiatr. 38; τὴν ἀκοήν Phld. Po. 2.18; cf. ἐνοχλέω: lat

III to be crowded

in Pass., to be crowded, ὁδὸς . . ἥτις οὐ πολὺ ὀχλεῖται Ceb. 15 (nisi πολυοχλεῖται leg.).

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Where it came from

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