Ancient Greek

Verb

ὀρχέομαι • ‎(orkhéomai)

1. I dance
   • 408 BCE – 334 BCE, Antiphanes Comicus, Collected Works 113.1
   • 250–350 BC, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 4.155.b
   • 250–350 BC, Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 14.631.d
   • Euph. 87
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 1.66
   • 750 BCE – 650 BCE, Hesiod, Theogony 4
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 18.594
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 8.371
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 14.465
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 1.3.10
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.4.12
   • 430 BCE – 354 BCE, Xenophon, Symposium 7.5
2. I represent by dancing or pantomime
   • 125 CE – 200 CE, Lucian, The Dance (Of Pantomime) 80
3. (figuratively) I leap, bound
   • 458 BCE, Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 166
   • 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Del. 139
4. (active) I cause to dance

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References

• ὀρχέομαι in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ὀρχέομαι in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ὀρχέομαι in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ὀρχέομαι» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ὀρχέομαι» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• “G3738”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979