μηκύν-ω,
Doric dialect μᾱκ- [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus (see. below)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future - ῠνῶ [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], Ionic dialect -ῠνέω [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.35 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐμήκῡνα [[ [prev. author] 3.60:] Refs] —middle, see below [[ 7 ] Refs]:—passive, perfect μεμήκυσμαι [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus (see. below), Eust.ad 2nd c.AD: Dionysius Periegeta 64 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]:— lengthen, prolong, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἀφορισμοί” 1.12; τὸ μέτωπον τῆς τάξεως 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitum magistro” 4.9; τὰς ὁδούς [prev. author] “Mem.” 3.13.5; μηκυνθέν τε καὶ σχὸν πλάτος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Politicus” 282e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Time, μ. χρόνον, βίον, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 87, 143 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, νοσεύματα μηκυνθέντα [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 7; ἐμηκύνετο ὁ πόλεμος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.102. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 delay, put off, τέλος [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.286. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 μ. λόγον, λόγους, spin out a speech, speak at length, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.35, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1484; τέκν᾽ εἰ φανέντ᾽ ἄελπτα μηκύνω λόγον [prev. author] “OC” 1120; τὴν ἀπολογίαν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 11.44; λόγους μακροτέρους 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.17: without λόγον] Refs 5th c.BC+], to be lengthy or tedious, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.60, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1132, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 437a, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 23 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μ. περί τινος enlarge upon.., [[ 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 71: _accusative_ objecti, μ. τὰ περὶ τῆς πόλεως, τὴν ὠφελίαν] Refs 4th c.BC+], talk at length about, dwell upon.., [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.42, 43 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be expounded at length, αὖθις ταῦτα μηκυνθήσεται [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “De rerum natura - Wien. Stud.” 14.5; μεμηκυσμένον σύγγραμμα 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 5.26 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; to be continually repeated, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 12 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; to be dwelt upon, [[ 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 137. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]