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βρα^δύνω , fut.
A.“-υ^νῶ” LXX De.7.10: aor. “ἐβράδυ_να” Luc.Cont.1, App. BC1.69: plpf. “ἐβεβραδύκειν” Luc.Symp.20: (βραδύς):
I. trans., make slow, delay, LXX Is.46.13 :—Pass., to be delayed, “τἀπὸ σοῦ βραδύνεται” S.OC1628; “ἡ δ᾽ ὁδὸς βραδύνεται” Id.El.1501.
II. intr., loiter, delay, “εἰ βραδύνοιμεν βοῇ” A.Supp.730 (so in Med., “χεῖρα δ᾽ οὐ βραδύνεται . . ἁρπάσαι δόρυ” Id.Th.623); “μὴ βράδυνε” S.Ph.1400; “σπεύδων . . βραδύνω” Pl.R.528d: c. inf., Polyaen.1.48.4; βραδύνει σοι τοῦτο; are you slow, slack in this ? Philostr.Im.1.6.
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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