Standard_Etymology_lego_(B)_01



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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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λέγω (B), [TO: 'lego (B)' in 'logos'=> ] [TO: 'lexis'=> ]
A. pick up, etc.: tenses for signf. 1 and 11, fut. “λέξωOd.24.224:
~~~.aor. “ἔλεξαA.Pers.292: — Med., fut. in pass. sense “λέξομαι
~~~. E. Alc.322: aor. “ἐλεξάμηνIl.21.27 (trans.); Ep. “ἐλέγμην
~~~. Od.9.335; “λέκτο4.451:—Pass., aor. “ἐλέχθηνIl.3.188: also
~~~. post-Hom. in these senses, but only in compos., esp. with ἀπο-,
~~~. ἐκ-, κατα-, συν
-; post-Hom. pf. εἴλοχακατ-, συν-), Pass.
~~~. εἴλεγμαι, in these senses rarely λέλεγμαι (v. the compds.); also
~~~. fut. λεγήσομαι συλ-): aor. 2 ἐλέγην κατ-, συν-): — gather,
~~~. pick up
, “ὀστέα . . λέγωμενIl.23. 239, cf. Od.24. 72, Pi.P.8.
~~~. 53; αἱμασιάς τε λέγων: picking out stones for building walls,
~~~. Od.18.359 (ubi v. Sch., cf. “λογάς2), cf. 24.224.
.2. Med., choose for oneself, pick out, “λέξαιτο...ἄνδρας ἀρίστους
~~~. Od.24.108; “κούρουςIl.21.27: —
~~~. Pass., to be chosen, “εἰ . . λεγοίμεθα πάντες ἄριστοι13.276.
II. count, tell, ἐν δ᾽ ἡμέας λέγε κήτεσιν, he counted us among the
~~~. seals, Od.4.452; and in aor. Med., Il.2.125; ἐγὼ πέμπτος μετὰ
~~~. τοῖσιν ἐλέγμην
I reckoned myself . . , Od.9.335;
~~~. λέκτο δ᾽ ἀριθμόν he told him over the number, 4.451: —
~~~. Pass., μετὰ τοῖσιν ἐλέχθην I was counted among these, Il.3.188.




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