Ancient Greek

Alternative forms

• ὀλοφύρρω ‎(olophúrrhō) Aeolic

Verb

ὀλοφῡ́ρομαι • ‎(olophū́romai)

1. I lament, wail, moan
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Democritus, Collected Works 107.a
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.141
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 5.871
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 24.328
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.409
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.447
   • 380 BCE, Plato, The Republic 329.a
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 6.78
   1. I feel pity
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 16.450
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.33
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.202
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 22.169
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 11.418
   2. (with infinitive) I lament
      • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Against Philocrates 4
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 22.232
2. (with accusative) I lament over, bewail
   • 480 BCE – 406 BCE, Euripides, Rhesus 896
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 5.4
   • 445 BCE – 380 BCE, Lysias, Funeral Oration 37
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 19.522
   • 497 BCE – 405 BCE, Sophocles, Electra 148
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.44
   1. I pity
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 8.245
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 4.364
      • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 10.157

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

• ὀλοφυρμός ‎(olophurmós)
• ὀλόφυρσῐς ‎(olóphursis)
• ὀλοφυρτέος ‎(olophurtéos)
• ὀλοφυρτῐκός ‎(olophurtikós)

References

• ὀλοφύρομαι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀλοφύρομαι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὀλοφύρομαι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὀλοφύρομαι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ὀλοφύρομαι» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• ὀλοφύρομαι in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter