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θρηνέω

threneo

sing a dirge, wail

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Where it lives

Joel 4 · 25.97/10k
Michaeas 2 · 8.78/10k
Sophonias 1 · 8.45/10k
Lamentationes 1 · 4.29/10k
Menexenus 2 · 4.16/10k
Ajax 3 · 3.82/10k
Tobias (cod. Vat. et Alex.) 2 · 3.81/10k
Prometheus Bound 2 · 3.4/10k
Phoenissae 3 · 3.11/10k
Hecuba 2 · 2.79/10k
Electra 2 · 2.3/10k
Philoctetes 2 · 2.27/10k

Densest 12 of 40 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

θρην-έω · thrēn-eō — LSJ

sing a dirge, wail, were singing

sing a dirge, wail, Μοῦσαι δʼ ἐννέα πᾶσαι ἀμειβόμεναι ὀπὶ καλῇ θρήνεον Od. 24.61; τίς ὁ θρηνήσων; A. Ag. l.c.; τίς . . ἔσθʼ ὁ θρηνῶν; Ar. Nu. 1260; θ. πρὸς τύμβον A. Ch. 926; θ. καὶ ὀδύρεσθαι Pl. Ap. 38d; πρὸς σφᾶς αὐτούς Isoc. 8.128: c. acc. cogn., στονόεσσαν ἀοιδὴν . . ἐθρήνεον were singing a doleful dirge, Il. 24.7221; γόον θ. A. Fr. 291; ὀξυτόνους ᾠδάς S. Aj. l.c.; ἐπῳδάς ib. 582; ὕμνους, of the nightingale, Ar. Av. 211 (lyr.); φθόγγους ἀλύρους Alex. 162.7:—Pass., ἅλις μοι τεθρήνηται γόοις S

2 bewail, to be lamented

c. acc., bewail, θ. πόνους A. Pr. 615; τὸν θάνατον Pl. Phd. 85a; ὅσα τὸν . . ἐμὸν θρηνῶ πατέρα S. El. 94 (anap.), cf. 530, Ev.Luc. 23.27, etc.; τὸν φύντα E. Fr. 449:—so also Med., ἄκος γὰρ οὐδὲν τόνδε θρηνεῖσθαι A. Pr. 43:—Pass., to be lamented, S. Aj. 852, Fr. 653.

In the wild

θρηνήσων · thrēnēsōn Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1541
θρηνεῖν · thrēnein Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 926
θρηνεῖτʼ · thrēneitʼ Aeschylus, Persians 686–687
θρηνεῖσθαι · thrēneisthai Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 43
θρηνῶν · thrēnōn Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 615
θρηνῶσιν · thrēnōsin Aristotle, Rhetoric 2

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