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λοιδορέω

loidoreo

abuse, revile

Appears 41 times across Plato's dialogues.

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λοιδορέω, fut. -ήσω D. 40.48: aor. ἐλοιδόρησα E. Med. 873, etc.: pf. λελοιδόρηκα Pl. Phdr. 241e:—Med. and Pass. (v. infr.), fut. -ήσομαι Ar. Eq. 1400, etc.: aor. ἐλοιδορησάμην Is. 6.59; Att. more freq. ἐλοιδορήθην D. 9.54,54.5 (v. infr.): (λοίδορος):—A. abuse, revile, τινα Hdt. 3.145; θεούς Pi. O. 9.37, cf. Ar. Nu. 1140, X. An. 3.4.49, BGU 1007.6 (iii B. C.), etc.: abs., E. l. c., etc.; sts. simply, rebuke, X. Cyr. 1.4.9; οἶνον εἰς ἐπίνοιαν λ. Ar. Eq. 90, cf. Plu. 2.175b (Pass.): with neut. Adj., ἐμαυτὸν πόλλʼ ἐλοιδόρησα E. Hel. 1171; οὐδὲν οὐδένα λ. Pl. Tht. 174c; λ. ἔνια Arist. EN 1128a31: with a predicate added, [τὴν Τύχην] λ. τυφλήν reproach fortune as blind, Plu. 2.98a:—Med., rail at one another, Antipho 2.1.4, Ar. Ra. 857, D. 54.18:—Pass., λοιδοροῦντας ἢ λοιδορουμένους reviling or reviled, Isoc. 2.47, cf. Phld. Lib.p.29 O.; λελοιδορημένος ὑπὸ . . rebuked . . , X. HG 5.4.29; οὐκ ἐν δίκη λοιδορηθείς Pl. Phdr. 275e, cf. Grg. 457d. II. Med. with aor. Pass. in act. sense, c. dat. pers., rail at, τινι Ar. Eq. 1400, Pl. 456, Ec. 248, Pl. R. 395d, etc.; also λ. ἐπί τινι X. Ages. 7.3; τινος Ach.Tat. 1.6; εἴς τινα Luc. Anach. 22; πρός τινα LXX Ex. 17.2: c. acc. cogn., πάντα τὰ αἰσχρὰ λοιδορέονται, ὅτι . . they use all kind of foul reproaches, saying that . . , Hdt. 4.184; λοιδορίαν ἣν ἐλοιδορήθη Κρατίνῳ περὶ τούτων D. 21.132. —Act. never has dat. exc. in later Gr., LXX Ex. 17.2, 2 Ma. 12.14, Epict. Ench. 34, Ant.Lib. 22.5; in And. 1.67 (ἠναντιώθην καὶ ἀντεῖπον —καὶ ἐλοιδόρησα—ἐκείνῳ ὧν ἦν ἄξιος) the dat. (if correct) depends on the other verbs; as does the acc. in οὓς ὕβριζες καὶ ἐλοιδοροῦ Hyp. Dem.Fr.(a).—Only the Act. is found in Trag.
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