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ἀναίνομαι , impf. ἠναινόμην, Ep. ἀναινόμην, late also
A.“ἀνηνόμην” Agath.1.13: aor. “ἀνηνάμην” Alciphr.3.37, subj. ἀνήνηται, inf. ἀνήνασθαι:
1. c. acc., refuse or reject with contempt, spurn, “σὲ δ᾽ ἀναίνεται ἠδὲ σὰ δῶρα” Il.9.679; ὃς δέ κ᾽ 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 'twould be hard to refuse a gift, ib.4.651; “ὡς μηδὲν ἀναίνοιντο ἔργον” X.Cyr.2.1.31.
2. renounce, disown, “φάος . . οὐκ ἠναίνετο” A.Ag.300; “οὐδ᾽ οἷόν τ᾽ ἀνήνασθαι πόσιν” E.Med.237; of sexual favours, “φιλότητα καὶ εὐνήν” Hom.Epigr.12.2; “ἀναίνεται δὲ λέκτρα” E.Hipp.14, cf. El. 311, Pl.Com.181, Men.446; “ἡμᾶς . . ἀναίνοιτ᾽ ἂν ἡ τοῦ διαλέγεσθαι δύναμις” Pl.Phlb.57e; “εἰ . . ἀναίνει Φορμίωνα κηδεστήν” D.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” A.Ag.1652, cf. Supp.801; εἰ . . ἀναίνεται εἰ ἐγὼ ἔσομαι ὑὸς Μενεκλέους repudiates the prospect of my being . . , Is.2.27.
III. abs., refuse, “αἴδεσθεν μὲν ἀνήνασθαι” Il.7.93; deny, “οὐδ᾽ αὐτὸς ἀ.” 9.116; “ἐπειδὴ πάμπαν ἀναίνεαι” Od.14.149; “ἀναινόμενος ταῦτα” D.61.48.
IV. c. part., disown doing or having done, νικώμενος λόγοισιν οὐκ ἀναίνομαι I am not ashamed, A.Ag.583; ἀναίνομαι τὸ γῆρας ὑμῶν εἰσορῶν I am ashamed to look on your old age, E.Ba.251; “θανοῦσα δ᾽ οὐκ ἀναίνομαι” IA1503, cf. HF1124.—Chiefly poet., once in Pl.
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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