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ἀναίνομαι

ἀναίνομαι, to reject with contempt, turn one’s back on, spurn

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ἀνήνηται aorist middle subjunctive 3rd singular of ἀναίνομαι

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ἀναίνομαι, impf. ἠναινόμην, Ep. ἀναινόμην, late also ἀνηνόμην Agath. 1.13: aor. ἀνηνάμην Alciphr. 3.37, subj. ἀνήνηται, inf. ἀνήνασθαι:
      • 1 c. acc., refuse or reject with contempt, spurn, σὲ δʼ ἀναίνεται ἠδὲ σὰ δῶρα Il. 9.679; ὃς δέ κʼ ἀνήνηται [σφέας] ib. 510; τῶν ἄλλων οὔτινα ἀναίνομαι on no one of the rest do I turn my back, Od. 8.212; and without a notion of contempt, πρὶν μὲν ἀναίνετο ἔργον ἀεικές refused, declined to do it, ib. 3.265; χαλεπόν κεν ἀνήνασθαι δόσιν εἴη ʼtwould be hard to refuse a gift, ib. 4.651; ὡς μηδὲν ἀναίνοιντο ἔργον X. Cyr. 2.1.31.
      • 2 renounce, disown, φάος . . οὐκ ἠναίνετο A. Ag. 300; οὐδʼ οἷόν τʼ ἀνήνασθαι πόσιν E. Med. 237; of sexual favours, φιλότητα καὶ εὐνήν Hom. Epigr. 12.2; ἀναίνεται δὲ λέκτρα E. Hipp. 14, cf. El. 311, Pl.Com. 181, Men. 446; ἡμᾶς . . ἀναίνοιτʼ ἂν ἡ τοῦ διαλέγεσθαι δύναμις Pl. Phlb. 57e; εἰ . . ἀναίνει Φορμίωνα κηδεστήν D. 36.31.
    • II c. inf., refuse, decline to do, ἠναίνετο λοιγὸν ἀμῦναι Il. 18.450; ἕζεσθαι μὲν ἀνήνατο 23.204; and with pleon. neg., ἀναίνετο μηδὲν ἑλέσθαι he declined to take anything, 18.500; οὐκ ἀναίνομαι θανεῖν A. Ag. 1652, cf. Supp. 801; εἰ . . ἀναίνεται εἰ ἐγὼ ἔσομαι ὑὸς Μενεκλέους repudiates the prospect of my being . ., Is. 2.27.
    • III abs., refuse, αἴδεσθεν μὲν ἀνήνασθαι Il. 7.93; deny, οὐδʼ αὐτὸς ἀ. 9.116; ἐπειδὴ πάμπαν ἀναίνεαι Od. 14.149; ἀναινόμενος ταῦτα D. 61.48.
    • IV c. part., disown doing or having done, νικώμενος λόγοισιν οὐκ ἀναίνομαι I am not ashamed, A. Ag. 583; ἀναίνομαι τὸ γῆρας ὑμῶν εἰσορῶν I am ashamed to look on your old age, E. Ba. 251; θανοῦσα δʼ οὐκ ἀναίνομαι IA 1503, cf. HF 1124.—Chiefly poet., once in Pl.

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