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                    "dictionary": "Bailly",
                    "reference": "Bailly 2020 Hugo Chávez Gérard Gréco, André Charbonnet, Mark De Wilde, Bernard Maréchal & contributeurs \/ Licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification — « CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 »",
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                    "description": "<font color='purple'>[ῡ]<\/font> <font color='darkgreen'>(<i>f. inus., ao<\/i>. ἐθήλυνα <font color='purple'>[ῡ]<\/font>, <i>pf<\/i>. τεθήλυγκα ; <i>pass. ao<\/i>. ἐθηλύνθην, <i>pf<\/i>. τεθήλυσμαι)<\/font> efféminer, amollir, énerver, XÉN. <i>Œc. 4, 2 ;<\/i> LUC. <i>D. deor. 5, 3, 3, etc. ; fig<\/i>. amollir : στόμα, SOPH. <i>Aj. 651,<\/i> la dureté <i>ou<\/i> l’âpreté de la parole ; κῦμα, ANTH. <i>10, 4,<\/i> calmer les flots ;<br\/><br\/><b style='color:darkblue'><i>Moy.<\/i><\/b> :<br\/><b>      1<\/b> se donner un air efféminé, BION <i>2, 18 ;<\/i><br\/><b>      2<\/b> s’enorgueillir comme une femme : τινι, THCR. <i>Idyl. 20, 14,<\/i> de qqe ch.<p style='color:darkgreen'>➳ <i>Impf. 3 sg. poét<\/i>. θηλύνετο, BION <i>l. c. ;<\/i> THCR. <i>l. c. Pf. pass. 3 sg<\/i>. τεθήλυνται, DC. <i>50, 27<\/i>.<\/p><p style='color:darkblue'><b>Étym<\/b>. θῆλυς.<\/p>"
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                    "description": "Plu. 2.999a; <i>aor.<\/i> ἐθήλυνα E. <i>Fr.<\/i> 360.29, Babr. Prooem. 1.19, (ἐξ-) Str. 5.44.13; <i>pf.<\/i> τεθήλυκα Arist. ap. Stob. 4.279M. ; — <i>Pass., aor.<\/i> ἐθηλύνθην (v. infr.), (ἐξ-) D.H. 14.8; <i>pf.<\/i> τεθήλυσμαι Hp. <i>Aër.<\/i> 15, J. <i>AJ<\/i> 4.8.40, (ἐκ-) Gal. 10.354; but -υμμαι (ἐκ-) Plb. 36.15.2, Luc. <i>DDeor.<\/i> 5.3; <i>3 sg.<\/i> -υνται D.C. 50.27; <i>inf.<\/i> -ύνθαι (ἐκ-) Plb. 31.21.3; (&lt; θῆλυς):<br\/><b>make womanish, enervate<\/b>, E. <i>l.c.<\/i> ; τὴν ἡδονήν Plu. <i>l.c.<\/i> ; τοὺς ἄνδρας Vett.Val. 76.6; <b>soften<\/b>, Ζέφυρος κῦμα θηλύνει <i>AP<\/i> 10.4 (Marc. Arg.); — Pass., τῶν σωμάτων θηλυνομένων X. <i>Oec.<\/i> 4.2, cf. Porph. <i>Abst.<\/i> 1.34; <b>become soft<\/b>, αἱ σάρκες θηλύνονται Hp. <i>Art.<\/i> 52; βαφῇ σίδηρος ὥς, ἐθηλύνθην στόμα S. <i>Aj.<\/i> 651; οὔπω ἐθηλύνθης <b>gav΄st<\/b> not yet <b>a sign of yielding<\/b>, <i>AP<\/i> 5.250 (Iren.); θ. οἴκτοις <i>ib.<\/i> 299 (Paul. Sil.); <b>play the coquette<\/b>, Bion 2.18; τᾷ μορφᾷ θηλύνετο Theoc. 20.14; <b>muliebria pati<\/b>, Vett.Val. 7.26, al. ; Astrol., of planets, Ptol. <i>Tetr.<\/i> 20. — Rare in Att."
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                    "reference": "Pape, Griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (3. Aufl., 1914)",
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                    "description": "<i>weiblich (θῆλυς), weibisch machen<\/i>, übertr., βαφῇ σίδηρος ἃς ἐθηλύνθην στόμα Soph. <i>Aj<\/i>. 636, d.i. ich wurde erweicht ; vgl. ἐθηλύνθη λίνα μοίρης, Nonn. <i>D<\/i>. 12.214 u. Iren. 3 (V.251); Ζέφυρος κῦμα θηλύνει M.Arg. 24 (X.4); auch in Prosa, τῶν σωμάτων θηλυνομένων Xen. <i>Oec<\/i>. 4.2 ; vgl. Luc. <i>Navig<\/i>. 27.<br\/><b>Med<\/b>. <i>sich weibisch zieren<\/i>, Bion. 7.18, vgl. Theocr. 20.14 τᾷ μορφᾷ θηλύνετο."
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