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λίσσομαι

lissomai

beg, pray

Appears 69 times across Homer's epics.

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λίσσομαι, Hom., Lyr., Trag.; Ep. Iterat. λισσέσκετο Il. 9.451: aor. 1 ἐλῐσάμην, Ep. ἐλλ. Od. 11.35; imper. λίσαι Il. 1.394; subj. 2sg. λίσῃ Od. 10.526: aor. 2 inf. λῐτέσθαι Il. 16.47; opt. λῐτοίμην Od. 14.406. (For pres. λίτομαι, v. sub voce):—A. beg, pray, either abs. or c. acc. pers., λισσομένη προσέειπε Δία Il. 1.502; εὐχωλῇσι λιτῇσί τε ἔθνεα νεκρῶν ἐλλισάμην Od. 11.35, etc.; the thing by which one prays is found with ὑπέρ, λ. ὑπὲρ τοκέων, ὑπὲρ ψυχῆς καὶ γούνων, Il. 15.660, 22.338; λ. τινὰ ὑπὲρ πατρὸς καὶ μητέρος 24.467: or simply in gen., λ. Ζηνὸς ἠδὲ Θέμιστος Od. 2.68; λ. τινὰ γούνων Il. 9.451, Od. 22.337 (for which in Il. 6.45 we have λαβὼν ἐλλίσσετο γούνων, cf. Od. 6.142; τῆ ἑτέρῃ μὲν ἑλὼν ἐλλίσσετο γούνων Il. 21.71; ἥπτετο χείρεσι γούνων ἱέμενος λίσσεσθʼ 20.469); also in Trag., πρὸ . . τέκνων σε λ. E. Tr. 1045 (v. infr.): an inf. is freq. added, as οὐδέ σʼ ἔγωγε λίσσομαι εἵνεκʼ ἐμεῖο μένειν I do not pray thee to remain, Il. 1.174, cf. 283, B. 10.69, Pi. P. 4.207; πρός νυν θεῶν σε λ. ἐμοὶ πιθέσθαι S. El. 428; καὶ μὴ προδοῦναι λ. prays her not to abandon him, E. Alc. 202: more rarely with an acc. and inf. added, λίσσονται Δία . . Ἄτην ἅμʼ ἕπεσθαι they pray Zeus that Ate may follow, Il. 9.511, cf. Od. 8.30: sts. folld. by ὅπως, λίσσεσθαί μιν, ὅπως νημερτέα εἴπῃ entreat him to say the truth, 3.19; or by ἵνα, ib.327: in Trag. parenth., μὴ πρόλειπε, λ., πάτερ A. Supp. 748; μή, λίσσομαί σʼ, αὔδα τάδε S. Aj. 368, cf. OT 650 (lyr.), Ar. Pax 382. 2. c. acc. rei, beg or pray for, οἷ αὐτῷ θάνατον καὶ κῆρα λιτέσθαι Il. 16.47: c. dupl. acc. pers. et rei, ταῦτα μὲν οὐχ ὑμέας ἔτι λίσσομαι this I beg of you no more, Od. 2.210, cf. 4.347. 3. in Hom. freq. c. dat. modi, ἐπέεσσι Il. 21.98, al.; εὐχῇσι Od. 10.526; εὐχωλῆσι λιτῆσί τε ἐλλισάμην 11.35.—Rare in Prose, as Hdt. 1.24, LXXJb. 17.2, Luc. Syr.D. 18; in Pl. R. 366a there is a ref. to Il. 9.501. [The λ- freq. makes position in Ep., Il. 1.394, al.; written λλ after the augm., v. supr.]
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