ἀναίνομαι
anainomai
refuse
Appears 16 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ἀναίνομαι, impf. ἠναινόμην, Ep. ἀναινόμην, late also ἀνηνόμην 1.13: aor. ἀνηνάμην 3.37, subj. ἀνήνηται, inf. ἀνήνασθαι: 1. c. acc., refuse or reject with contempt, spurn, σὲ δʼ ἀναίνεται ἠδὲ σὰ δῶρα Il. 9.679; ὃς δέ κʼ ἀνήνηται [σφέας] ib.510; τῶν ἄλλων οὔτινα ἀναίνομαι on no one of the rest do I turn my back, Od. 8.212; and without a notion of contempt, πρὶν μὲν ἀναίνετο ἔργον ἀεικές refused, declined to do it, ib.3.265; χαλεπόν κεν ἀνήνασθαι δόσιν εἴη ʼtwould be hard to refuse a gift, ib.4.651; ὡς μηδὲν ἀναίνοιντο ἔργον Cyr. 2.1.31. 2. renounce, disown, φάος . . οὐκ ἠναίνετο Ag. 300; οὐδʼ οἷόν τʼ ἀνήνασθαι πόσιν Med. 237; of sexual favours, φιλότητα καὶ εὐνήν Epigr. 12.2; ἀναίνεται δὲ λέκτρα Hipp. 14, cf. El. 311, 181, 446; ἡμᾶς . . ἀναίνοιτʼ ἂν ἡ τοῦ διαλέγεσθαι δύναμις Phlb. 57e; εἰ . . ἀναίνει Φορμίωνα κηδεστήν 36.31. II. c. inf., refuse, decline to do, ἠναίνετο λοιγὸν ἀμῦναι Il. 18.450; ἕζεσθαι μὲν ἀνήνατο 23.204; and with pleon. neg., ἀναίνετο μηδὲν ἑλέσθαι he declined to take anything, 18.500; οὐκ ἀναίνομαι θανεῖν Ag. 1652, cf. Supp. 801; εἰ . . ἀναίνεται εἰ ἐγὼ ἔσομαι ὑὸς Μενεκλέους repudiates the prospect of my being . . , 2.27. III. abs., refuse, αἴδεσθεν μὲν ἀνήνασθαι Il. 7.93; deny, οὐδʼ αὐτὸς ἀ. 9.116; ἐπειδὴ πάμπαν ἀναίνεαι Od. 14.149; ἀναινόμενος ταῦτα 61.48. IV. c. part., disown doing or having done, νικώμενος λόγοισιν οὐκ ἀναίνομαι I am not ashamed, Ag. 583; ἀναίνομαι τὸ γῆρας ὑμῶν εἰσορῶν I am ashamed to look on your old age, Ba. 251; θανοῦσα δʼ οὐκ ἀναίνομαι IA 1503, cf. HF 1124.—Chiefly poet., once in
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