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ἐλυμήνατο (elymenato)

ἐλυμήνατο is an Ancient Greek form of λυμαίνομαι, meaning “outrage, ruin”. It is the 3rd person singular aorist middle indicative.

Found 30 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Lucian of Samosata, Scytha 2: … ἴδοις ἂν αὐτοῦ ὑπὲρ ἥμισυ καὶ τὸ τόξον ὅλον καὶ τὸ βιβλίον· τὰ δὲ ἄνω τῆς στήλης καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον ὁ χρόνος ἤδη ἐλυμήνατό που· ἔστιν δὲ οὐ πολὺ ἀπὸ τοῦ Διπύλου, ἐν ἀριστερᾷ εἰς Ἀκαδημίαν ἀπιόντων, οὐ μέγα τὸ χῶμα καὶ ἡ στήλη χαμαί· …

Strabo, Geography 12.2.8: … ολλὴν παρέσυρε καὶ κατοικίας καὶ φυτείας ἠφάνισε πολλὰς τῆς τε τῶν Γαλατῶν τῶν τὴν Φρυγίαν ἐχόντων οὐκ ὀλίγην ἐλυμήνατο· ἀντὶ δὲ τῆς βλάβης ἐπράξαντο ζημίαν αὐτὸν τάλαντα τριακόσια Ῥωμαίοις ἐπιτρέψαντες τὴν κρίσιν. τὸ δʼ αὐτὸ συν …

All forms of λυμαίνομαι (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.