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θροέω , aor. ἐθρόησα, poet.
A.“θρο-” B.3.9, S.Aj.947, (δι-) Th.6.46:— Med. and Pass. (v. infr.): (θρόος):—cry aloud, B. l.c., S.El.1410; παρὰ νοῦν θ. Id.Ph.1195 (lyr.); πᾶσιν to all, Id.Aj.67, cf. Tr.531; speak, say, A.Pr.608 (lyr.); θρόει, τίς . . ; E.Or.187(lyr.): c. acc. cogn., “θ. αὐδάν” A.Ch.829(lyr.), E.Or.1248 (lyr.); “λόγον” S.Ant.1287 (lyr.); “πολλά” Id.Aj.592; εὔφημα, ψευδῆ, E.IA143 (lyr.), 1345 (troch.):—Med., “τοῦτ᾽ ἔπος -ούμενος” A.Eu.510(lyr.).
2. c. acc., tell out, utter aloud, “τοὐμὸν πάθος” Id.Ag.1137 (lyr.); νόμον ἄνομον ib. 1141 (lyr.), cf. 104; “πᾶς τοῦτό γ᾽ Ἑλλήνων θροεῖ” S.OC597; θάνατόν τινι θ. ib.1425.—Rare. exc. in Trag.; in late Prose, J.AJ18.6.10, 19.1.16.
II. causal, scare, terrify, Sch.E.Hec.180, al.:—Pass., to be stirred. moved, of joy, “ἡ κοιλία μου ἐθροήθη ἐπ᾽ αὐτόν” LXX Ca.5.4; of fear, “μὴ θροεῖσθε” Ev.Matt.24.6, cf. 2 Ep.Thess.2.2.
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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