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τᾰράσσω,
[[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 2.63, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Attic dialect ταράττω [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 902 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also θράσσω (which see): future ταράξω [[[prev. work] 358, etc.: ] Refs]aorist ἐτάραξα [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.291, (συν-) 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.579, 8.86 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: pluperfect συν-ετεταράχει [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 42.36: _Epic dialect_ ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]perfect in passive sense τέτρηχα (see. below [[ 111)] Refs]:—passive, future ταραχθήσομαι [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 858 (probably), 1st-2nd c.AD: Epictetus Philosophus “Enchiridion” 3, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; middle ταράξομαι in passive sense, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.36, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.1.43 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐταράχθην [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 386 (_anapaest meter_), etc.: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]perfect τετάραγμαι[[ [prev. work] 388 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs], etc.:—stir, trouble, in a physical sense, σύναγεν νεφέλας ἐτάραξε δὲ πόντον [Ποσειδῶν] [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.291; κύμασιν ταράσσεται πόντος 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 54, compare 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 54; τ. πέλαγος ἁλός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 88, compare 692; ὁμοῦ τ. τήν τε γῆν καὶ τὴν θάλατταν εἰκῇ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 431; τ. καὶ κυκᾶν [prev. author] “Ach.” 688 (troch.), “Eq.” 251 (troch.)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὐ χθόνα ταράσσοντες troubling not the earth (by ploughing), [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus [same place]; βροντήμασι.. κυκάτω πάντα καὶ ταρασσέτω 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 994 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τ. φάρμακον perhaps mix, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Lex.” 4, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Amipsias Comicus 18: _metaphorically_, φωνὰν ταρασσέμεν] Refs 5th c.BC+] to wag the tongue, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 11.42 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πάντα τ., of a speaker, jumble up, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.93; τὴν τῶν πραγμάτων διδασκαλίαν 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.185. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __2 trouble the mind, agitate, disturb, με δεινὸς ὀρθομαντείας πόνος στροβεῖ ταράσσων [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1216 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; δεινὰ (adverbial) τ. [με] [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 483 (Lyric poetry); ὅταν ταράξῃ Κύπρις ἡβῶσαν φρένα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 969, compare “fragment” 1079.4; Νικίαν ταράξω 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 358 (troch.); τ. καρδίαν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1321 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially of fear, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 289, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 66, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄν τις φόβος τ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.4.6; τὸ σῶμα τ. τὴν ψυχήν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 66a, compare 103c; so τ. γλῶσσαν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1542 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, cause confusion, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 564b, “Hp.Mi.” 373b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, [[ [prev. author] “Phd.” 100d, etc.; περί τι [prev. author] “Sph.” 242c; διά τι 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.3; ταράσσομαι φρένας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1095 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὄμμα σὸν τ. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 253. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 of an army, etc., throw into disorder, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.125, 9.51, etc.; ἐτάρασσον τοὺς ταρσοὺς τῶν κωπέων [prev. author] 8.12 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be in disorder, [[ [prev. author] 4.125, 129, 8.16, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.25, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.1.27, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐν σφίσιν αὐτοῖς τ. [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.67. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3.b metaphorically, rout or upset, κριτήριον τ. [[ 2nd c.BC: Demetrius Lacon Philosophus “Herc.” 1012.38 (perhaps variant of 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Sententiae” 24)] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, λόγου ταραχθέντος [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.136 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus; εἰ τὰ σημεῖα ταραχθείη 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.262. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__4 τ. τὴν γαστέρα cause relaxation of the bowels, of purges, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ γυναικείης φύσιος” 12, compare “Acut.” 56, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 864b23, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.667] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, ἐταράχθης τὴν γαστέρα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 386 (_anapaest meter_); τὸ πνεῦμα 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.903; more generally, τεταραγμένον σῶμα 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.105. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__5 frequently of political agitation, τ. τὴν πόλιν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 867; τὰ πράγματα [prev. work] 214 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be in a state of disorder or anarchy, ἐν ἀλλήλοις τ. [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.65, compare 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.14, 2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Tetrabiblos” 164. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__6 ταράττεσθαι ἐπὶ τῶν ἵππων to be shaken in one's seat on horseback, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.2.17. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__7 in Mathematics texts, τεταραγμένη ἀναλογία disturbed proportion, [[ 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 5 “Def.” 18, 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ σφαίρας καὶ κυλίνδρου” 2.4. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II stir up, metaphorically, τ. νεῖκος, πόλεμον, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 794 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 567a; φόνον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 797; ἡλίκα πράγματα ταράξασα 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.153, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.10.9; τ. δίκας τινὶ πρός τινας 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Themistocles” 5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, πόλεμος ἐταράχθη [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.151; γόος.. ταραχθείς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 331 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__III except in the places mentioned, [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses only _intransitive_ ] Refs 8th c.BC+]perfect τέτρηχα, to be in disorder or confusion, be in an uproar, τετρήχει δ᾽ ἀγορή [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.95; ἀγορὴ τετρηχυῖα 7.346; so τετρηχυῖα θάλασσα “Anthologia Graeca” 7.283 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus); τετρηχότος οἴδματος 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.1167; τετρηχότα βῶλον [prev. author] 3.1393; τετρηχότι νώτῳ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 267 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; but ἐκ σέθεν.. ἄλγεα.. τετρήχασι cruel woes arise, [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.447, compare 3.276, 4th-3rd c.BC: Philetas 7; in 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Theriaca” 72 τετρήχοντα κλήματα is _falsa lectio_ for{δὲ τρήχοντα}. (Alexandrine and later Poets seem to have thought erroneously that τέτρηχα] Refs 4th c.BC+] = to be rough (compare τραχύς).) (ταράχψω from ταραχ-ή, τάραχ-ος and these from *θᾰρᾰχ-: cognate with θράσσω from θρᾱχ-yω of which the Ionic dialect perfect is τέτρηχα.)
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