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οὐτάω

outao

wound, hurt, hit

Appears 49 times across Homer's epics.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

οὐτάω, 3sg. οὐτᾷ A. Ch. 640 (lyr.); Ep. imper. οὔτᾰε Od. 22.356: fut. οὐτήσω Nonn. D. 21.37: aor. οὔτησα Il. 11.260; Ion. οὐτήσασκε 22.375 :—Pass., aor. part. οὐτηθείς 8.537.—As pres. and impf. Hom. uses οὐτάζω, Act. and Pass., Il. 20.459, 7.273, al. (so E. Fr. 176): hence fut. οὐτάσω Id. Rh. 255 (lyr.): aor. οὔτᾰσα Il. 7.258, E. HF 199: pf. Pass. οὔτασται Il. 11.661; part. οὐτασμένος Od. 11.536, A. Ag. 1344.— Also (as if from οὔτημι) 3sg. Ep.aor. οὖτᾰ Il. 4.525, 11.491, 13.561, etc.; inf. οὐτάμεναι 21.68, al., οὐτάμεν 5.132,821; part. (in pass. sense) οὐτάμενος 11.659, 17.86, Od. 11.40, Hes. Sc. 363; Ion. Iterat. οὔτασκε Il. 15.745 (cf. ἀν-, νε-ούτατος):—A. Ep. Verb, used sts. in Trag. (never by S.), wound, hurt, hit with any kind of weapon, οὖτα δὲ δουρί Il. 4.525, cf. 11.260, al.; οὐ. ἔγχεϊ 21.402; χαλκῷ 12.427; but prop. opp. βάλλω (q. v.), wound by striking or thrusting, 11.659, etc.: which is more fully expressed by σχεδὸν οὔτασε, 5.458; αὐτοσχεδὸν οὐτάζοντο 7.273; αὐτοσχεδίην οὐτασμένος Od. 11.536: mostly with acc. of pers. or part wounded, c. dupl. acc., Κύπριδα . . οὔτασε χεῖρα Il. 5.458; Ληόκριτον οὖτα . . κενεῶνα Od. 22.294; also οὐ. τινὰ κατὰ χρόα, κατʼ ἰσχίον, κατʼ ἀσπίδα, etc., Il. 12.427 (Pass.), 11.338,434, al.: more rarely c. acc. rei, σάκος οὔτασε δουρί pierced the shield, 7.258, al., cf. Hes. Sc. 363 (Pass.): c. acc. cogn., ἕλκος, ὅ με βροτὸς οὔτασεν ἀνήρ the wound which a man struck me withal, Il. 5.361: hence κατʼ οὐταμένην ὠτειλήν by the wound inflicted, 14.518; so also τὸ ξίφος διανταίαν [πληγήν] . . οὐτᾷ A. Ch. 640 (lyr.). 2. sts. generally, wound, like βάλλω, πυρί with lightning, E. Hipp. 684; τοξεύμασιν Id. HF 199, cf. Opp. H. 2.372.
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