ἀμύνω [ῡ],
Epic dialect imperfect ἄμῡνον[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.731: ] Refs 8th c.BC+]future ἀμῠνῶ, Ionic dialect -ῠνέω[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.60, _3rd.pers._ _plural_ -εῦσι [prev. work] 6] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist 1 ἤμῡνα, Epic dialect ἄμυνα [ᾰμ] [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.615] Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist 2, see at {ἀμυνάθω}:—middle, Epic dialect imperfect ἀμυνόμην [[[prev. work] 13.514] Refs]: future ἀμυνοῦμαι: aorist 1 ἠμυνάμην: aorist 2, see at {ἀμυνάθω}:—passive rare (see. below c):—keep off, ward off, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, mostly in 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” ] Refs 8th c.BC+] —Construction:
__1 with accusative of the person or thing to be kept off, with dative person for or from whom danger averted, Δαναοῖσιν λοιγὸν ἄμυνον ward off ruin from the Danai, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.456, compare 341, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.525:— _dative_ frequently omitted, ὃς λοιγὸν ἀμύνει 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.603; ἄ. τὸν βάρβαρον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 692e, compare “Anecdota Graeca - Bekker” 79] Refs 8th c.BC+]. b. with dative only, defend, aid, succour, ἀ. ὤρεσσι, σοῖσιν ἔτῃσι, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.486, 6.262, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.500, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.87, 9.6, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τοιαῦτ᾽ ἀμύνεθ᾽ Ἡρακλεῖ such aid ye give to H., [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 219] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀ. τῇ πόλει, τῷ δήμῳ, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 577, 790; τῷ νόμῳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 523, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.67:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —with infinitive added, τοῖς μὲν οὐκ ἠμύνατε σωθῆναι so that they might be saved, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.80. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]