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παρώξυνεν (paroxynen)

παρώξυνεν is an Ancient Greek form of παροξύνω, meaning “provoke, irritate, spur on”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist active indicative.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Themistocles 7.5: … λους, ὃς ἦν μὲν ἐπὶ τῆς ἱερᾶς νεὼς τριήραρχος, οὐκ ἔχων δὲ χρήματα τοῖς ναύταις χορηγεῖν ἔσπευδεν ἀποπλεῦσαι, παρώξυνεν ἔτι μᾶλλον ὁ Θεμιστοκλῆς τοὺς τριηρίτας ἐπʼ αὐτόν, ὥστε τὸ δεῖπνον ἁρπάσαι συνδραμόντας.

Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War 1.534: Παρώξυνεν δʼ αὐτοῦ καὶ Σαλώμη τὴν ἐπὶ τοῖς τέκνοις ὠμότητα· ταύτην γὰρ συνδήσασθαι τοῖς κινδύνοις ὁ Ἀριστόβουλος θέλων …

All forms of παροξύνω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.