Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, ὁρμαίνω

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I. in Hom. always, turn over or revolve anxiously in the mind, debate, ponder, mostly c. acc., “ἧος ὁ ταῦθ᾽ ὥρμαινε κατὰ φρένα καὶ κατὰ θυμόν” Il.1.193, etc. : more shortly, “κατὰ φρένα” 10.507; “ἐνὶ φρεσίν” Od.4.843, h.Merc.66 ; “φρεσίν” Il. 10.4, Od.3.151 ; “ἀνὰ θυμόν” 2.156 ; “θυμῷ” A.R.3.451 ; μετὰ φρεσί ib.18; also ὁρμαίνειν τι alone, ponder over, meditate, πόλεμον, πλόον, etc., Il. 10.28, Od.3.169, etc.; πολλά or “ἄλλα δέ οἱ κῆρ ὅρμαινε” 7.83, 18.345; “ὁρμαίνων τέρας” Pi.O.8.41.

2. abs., think, muse, ὣς ὥρμαινε thus he debated with himself, Il.21.64, cf. 14.20.

3. folld. by a clause, ἤ . . , ἦ . . debate whether . . , or . . , 16.435, Od.4.789, 15.300; ὁ. ὅπως debate, ponder how a thing is to be done, Il.21.137, 24.680.

4. c. inf., long, desire, Hom.Epigr.4.16, A.R.3.620, Theoc.24.26; “ὁ. νᾶας καῦσαι” rushing on to . . , B.12.106.

II. after Hom.,

1. set in motion, drive forth, θυμὸν ὁ. gasp out one's life, A.Ag.1388 (ὀρυγάνει cj. Hermann); excite, urge, “τινὰ πορεύειν” Pi.O.3.25 (v.l. ὥρμα).

2. intr., to be eager or impatient, chafe, fret, “[ἵππος] βοὴν σάλπιγγος ὁρμαίνει κλύων” A.Th.394 ; “κέαρ ὁ.” B.Fr.16.12 ; “ἄπρηκτον ὁ.” Semon.1.7 : part. “ὁρμαίνων” eagerly, quickly, Pi.O.13.84.

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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Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (24):
- Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 1388
- Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 394
- Bacchylides, Epinicians, 12.106
- Homer, Iliad, 10.4
- Homer, Iliad, 14.20
- Homer, Iliad, 16.435
- Homer, Iliad, 1.193
- Homer, Iliad, 21.137
- Homer, Iliad, 21.64
- Homer, Iliad, 24.680
- Homer, Odyssey, 15.300
- Homer, Odyssey, 18.345
- Homer, Odyssey, 2.156
- Homer, Odyssey, 3.151
- Homer, Odyssey, 4.789
- Homer, Odyssey, 4.843
- Homer, Odyssey, 3.169
- Homer, Odyssey, 7.83
- Homeric Hymns, Hymn 4 to Hermes, 66
- Homer, Iliad, 10.28
- Homer, Iliad, 10.507
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3.18
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3.451
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 3.620

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