ξαίνω,
future ξᾰνῶ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 827 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἔξηνα [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 12:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, aorist ἐξάνθην (see. below): perfect ἔξασμαι (κατ-) [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἑλκῶν” 24, (ἀν-) 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 51.57.3, ἔξαμμαι 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 3.23.2, “Geoponica” 3.1.7, (κατ-) 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.71 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— scratch, comb, especially of wool, card, εἴριά τε ξαίνειν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.423 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; στέμματα ξ., of Fate, E.[same place]: absolutely, dress wool, [[ Trag.Adesp. 9, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 536, “Ec.” 89, 92, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 226b, etc.: with _genitive_ _partitive_, τῶν ἐρίων ξ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 717, 4th c.BC: Crates Thebanus Poeta Philosophus 3: _metaphorically_, ξ. εὔνοιαν εἰς καλαθίσκον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 579 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ξ. εἰς πῦρ, proverbial of labour in vain, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 780c. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 of cloth, full, dress it, ξ. τὸν πέπλον [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Av.” [prev. cited] ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II metaphorically, thresh, ἡνίκ᾽ ἂν ξανθῇ στάχυς uncertain in [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 304.7 (to be read ἡνίκ᾽ ἐξανθῇ)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; fret, mangle, of waves, ξανθὲν ὑπὸ σπιλάδι[[ “Anthologia Graeca” 6.223] Refs] (Antip.), compare 23; ὕδωρ ξαινόμενον fretted into foam, [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.1266 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; of bodies, mangle, lacerate, ξαινόμενος περὶ τῇ γῇ [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 3.30; especially of flogging, ξ. τὸ σῶμα μάστιξι [prev. passage]; ῥάβδοις ἔξαινον τὰ σώματα 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Publicola” 6, compare 3rd c.AD(?): Achilles Tatius Astronomus 6.20 (_passive_): with _accusative_ _cognate_, ξ. κατὰ τοῦ νώτου πολλὰς (i.e. πληγάς) 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.197; μελεϊστὶ ξ. 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Heroicus” 19.18; also ξαίνουσα παρειὰς δάκρυσιν “Anthologia Graeca” 7.464 (Antip.) ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the throat, in passive, to be irritated, sore, [[ 2nd c.AD: Antyllus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 10.34.8 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; of the mind, fret, worry, ξαίνεσθαι τὴν ψυχὴν φροντίδι [[ 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 1.1.4. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]