shrink from
ὀκν-έω, Ep.
ὀκνείω
Il. 5.255 :impf.
A.
ὤκνεον
20.155
:fut.
-ήσω
Isoc. 6.72
:aor.
ὤκνησα
D. 18.103
, etc. : (ὄκνος) :—shrink fromdoing,scruple, hesitateto do a thing, c.inf., ὀκνείω ἵππων ἐπιβαινέμεν
Il. 5.255
; ἀρχέμεναι πολέμοιο ὤκνεον
20.155
.—In Att. mostly with collat. sense of the feeling which causes the hesitation, and so,
1. of shame or fear (in a moral sense),ὀκνῶ προδότης καλεῖσθαιIshrink frombeing called,fearto be called, S. Ph. 93 , cf. Th. 5.61 , Lys. Fr. 23 ;οἷα ἐγὼ ὀκνῶ πρὸς ὑμᾶς ὀνομάσαι shrink fromnaming,hesitateto name, D. 2.19 , cf. Pl. Grg. 462e ; τοσαῦθ' ὅς' ὀκνήσαιμ' ἂν . . εἰπεῖν
D. 18.103
, cf. 24.7 , etc.
2. of pity, σὰς ὀκνῶ θρᾶξαι φρένας
A. Pr. 628
, cf. S. El. 1271 .
3. most commonly of cowardice or indolence, μεμηνότ' ἄνδρα . . ὀκνεῖς ἰδεῖν
Id. Aj. 81
, cf. Th. 1.120 , etc.—The Homeric constr. c.inf.continued most common (v. supr.): rarely c. acc.,πῶς τὸ μητρὸς λέκτρον οὐκ ὀκνεῖν με δεῖ; S. OT 976 ; ὃν μήτ' ὀκνεῖτε
Id. OC 731
, cf. X. Cyr. 2.2.21 ; ἂν ὀκνῇς τὸ μανθάνειν
Philem. 213.1
; also ὀ. περί τινος
X. Cyr. 4.5.20
; ὀ. μή . .
Pl. Phdr. 257c
, X. An. 2.3.9 , D. 1.18 .
II. freq. also abs.,shrink, hesitate, hang back,
Hdt. 7.50 , S. El. 22 , 320 , Antipho Soph. 55 , Luc. Prom. 18 , etc. ; of soldiers, Arist. Pol. 1297b11 .
