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ἀλγ-έω , fut.
A.“-ήσω” Od.12.27, (ἄλγος) feel bodily pain, suffer, ἀλγήσας smarting with pain, Il.2.269, etc.; suffer, be ill, Hdt.4.68; more fully, “ἀλγήσας ὀδύνῃσι” Il.12.206: suffering part in acc., “ἄλγησον ἧπαρ” A.Eu. 135; “τὰς γνάθους ἀλγήσετε” Ar.Pax237; “τὸν δάκτυλον” Pl.R.462d; τὰ ὄμματα ib.515e.
2. suffer hardship, ἢ ἁλὸς ἢ ἐπὶ γῆς ἀλγήσετε Od.l.c.
II. feel pain of mind, grieve, ἀ. ψυχήν, φρένα, Hdt.3.43, E.Or.608, etc.; ἀ. τινί to be pained at a thing, Hdt.3.120, S.OC744, etc.; “ἐπ᾽ ἐξειργασμένοις” Id.Aj.377, etc.; “διά τι” Hdt.4.68; περί τι or τινος, Th.2.65, E.Andr.240: c. gen., “ἀλγεῖν χρὴ τύχης παλιγκότου” A.Ag.571, cf. E.Hec.1256: c. acc., “ἀλγῶ μὲν ἔργα” A.Ch.1016; “πρᾶξιν ἢν ἤλγησ᾽ ἐγώ” S.Aj.790: c. part., “ἤλγησ᾽ ἀκούσας” Hdt.3.50, A.Pers. 844; “ἀλγῶ κλύων” S.Ph.86; “ὁρῶν” Eup.117.2 : abs., τὸ ἀλγοῦν, opp. τὸ ἡδόμενον, Epicur.Sent.4.
III. Pass., “ὑποχόνδριον -ούμενον” Hp. Coac.273; “τὸν ἀλγούμενον ὀδόντα” Dsc.Eup.1.66.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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