ὀδύρ-ομαι [ῡ],
mostly used in present and imperfect, Epic dialect imperfect ὀδύρετο, ὀδύροντο (without augment), Ionic dialect ὀδυρέσκετο [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.119 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future ὀδῠροῦμαι [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.186, and probable reading 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 18.35 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ὠδῡράμην [[ [prev. author] 12.9, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.75 (compare ἀνοδύρομαι) ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; participle ὀδῡράμενος [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.48 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist passive κατ-ωδύρθην [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.117f.] Refs 1st c.AD+]—In Trag. the form δύρομαι is required by the metre in [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 273, “Pers.” 582 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1218 (Lyric poetry, ὀδ- codices), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 740, “Med.” 159 (Lyric poetry, ὀδ- codices), and probably in [prev. author] “Andr.” 397, see below 4; in [prev. author] “Ph.” 1762, 4th-3rd c.BC: Apollodorus Comicus 8, ὀδύρομαι] Refs 5th c.BC+] is necessary; elsewhere either form is possible:—lament, bewail, a person or thing:
__1 with accusative person, ὀδυρομένη φίλα τέκνα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.315; Ἕκτορα δάκρυ χέοντες ὀδύροντο 24.714, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1439, “Ant.” 693:] Refs 8th c.BC+] less frequently with accusative _of things_, ὁ δ᾽ ὀδύρετο πατρίδα γαῖαν mourned for it, i.e. for the want of it, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.219; so νόστον ὀ. 5.153, 13.379; προπηλακίσεις 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 329b; δυστυχίας 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.169; πάθη 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.41; οὐκ ὠδύραντο.. τὴν προκαταστροφήν 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Sententiae” 40. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]