Strong G4141πλήσσω

πλήσσω,
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 456, present used by 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and _Attic dialect_ writers only in _compound_ ἐκπλ- (compare πλήγνυμι))]; Attic dialect πλήττω [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Physica” 224a33)]: future πλήξω [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 275, and late Prose, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vita Apollonii” 5.39, (ἐπι-) 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.580, (ἐκ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 436e, (κατα-) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Respublica Lacedaemoniorum” 8.3:)]aorist ἔπληξα, Epic dialect πλῆξα, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.266, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 855, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.64, and later Greek, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 4.8.33, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.233f, “BGU” 759.14 (2nd c.AD), etc.)]; Doric dialect πλᾶξα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.49)]; never in Attic dialect [Refs 5th c.BC+ ((5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1579 is spurious) except in compounds ἐκ-, κατα- (which see))]; in the simple Verb the future and aorist of πατάσσω or παίω are used instead, as also in [Refs (LXX:)]perfect πέπληγα, subjunctive πεπλήγῃ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1350)], infinitive πεπληγέναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.1.5)] (uncertain, but read by [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 1.15e))], participle πεπληγώς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.763, +others)] (also in passive sense in late writers, [LXX+1st c.AD+ (LXX.2Ch.29.9, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Lucullus” 31, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Trag.” 115, 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 5.91, etc.))]; later perfect πέπληχα [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 485, “Sam.” 86, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 4.8.33)]: Epic dialect reduplicate aorist 2 ἐπέπληγον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.504, πέπληγον 23.363, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.264)]; infinitive πεπληγέμεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.728, 23.660)]; but participle πεπλήγοντες in present sense, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Jovem” 53, 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 28.327:)] —middle, future πλήξομαι (κατα-) [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 4.80.2, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.10, etc.:)]aorist ἐπληξάμην, Epic dialect πληξάμην, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“hymnus ad Cererem” 245, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.14)], and in late Prose, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 16.10.7, (κατα-) 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.52.1, etc.)]; participle πληξάμενος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.125)]: Epic dialect aorist 2 πεπλήγετο [Refs 8th c.BC+ (12.162, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.198, πεπλήγοντο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.51)]:—passive, present πλήσσομαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Ptolemaeus Mathematicus “Harmonica - Opera Mathematica” 1.1)]: future πληγήσομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.3.10, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.263 (but in _composition_ ἐκ-πλᾰγήσομαι))]; also πεπλήξομαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 894, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 271, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 180a)]: aorist ἐπλήχθην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.39, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.93, “Placita Philosophorum” 4.14.3, but mostly ἐπλήγην, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.120, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 605, etc.)] (the former nowhere in Trag., except ἐκ-πληχθείς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 183 (Lyric poetry)))]; participle πληγείς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.12, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 608, “Frr.” 139, 180, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.4.3, etc.; _Doric dialect_ πλᾱγείς (see. below 1.1a ad near the end))]; Aeolic dialect πλάγεις [ᾱ] [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 26.3)]; (ἐπλάγην [ᾰ] only in compounds ἐξ-, κατ-, of persons struck with terror or amazement): perfect πέπληγμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.41, etc.)]—in Attic dialect and Trag., also LXX, the simple Verb is scarcely found except in future 2 and 3, aorist 2, and perfect passive, but future active is used once by [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus)], perfect [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2 πέπληγα by 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus and 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus (see. above); 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus uses the _active_ (_aorist_) only in 3.64, 78.)] —The _present_ πλήσσω, πλήσσομαι are unknown to Attic dialect writers (also to [LXX (LXX, exc. LXX.4Mac.14.19), who use the)]present active and passive of παίω, τύπτω instead (see. entry his vv.); whereas the aorist 2 passive ἐπλήγην is used instead of ἐπαίσθην, ἐπατάχθην, or ἐτύφθην (ἐτύπην): hence παίσαντές τε καὶ πληγέντες [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 172; πότερον πρότερος ἐπλήγην ἢ ἐπάταξα 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 4.15)]; πατάξας καταβάλλω, opposed to πληγεὶς κατέπεσεν, [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 1.25,27; ὁ πληγεὶς ἀεὶ τῆς πληγῆς ἔχεται, κἂν ἑτέρωσε πατάξῃ τις, ἐκεῖσ᾽ εἰσὶν αἱ χεῖρες 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.40; ὅταν ὁ μὲν πληγῇ, ὁ δὲ πατάξῃ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1132a8; πατάξαι ἢ πληγῆναι [prev. author] “Rh.” 1377a21; so in 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.33,38 the)]active πατάξαι corresponds with the passive πληγῆναι[Refs (in [prev. work] 36,39)]:—strike, smite, frequently in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, especially of a direct blow, opposed to βάλλειν (οὔτε πληγέντα.., οὔτε βληθέντα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.117), πλῆξεν.. κόρυθος φάλον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.362; σκήπτρῳ δὲ μετάφρενον ἠδὲ καὶ ὤμω πλῆξεν 2.266, compare 16.791)]; πλήξας ξίφει αὐχένα[Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 332; μή τις.. ἐμὲ χειρὶ βαρείῃ πλήξῃ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.57, etc.; ἱστὸς.. πλῆξε κυβερνήτεω κεφαλήν 12.412)]: with accusative double person et of things, strike one on.., τὸν δ᾽ ἄορι πλῆξ᾽ αὐχένα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.240, etc.; τὸν.. ξίφεϊ.. κληῗδα παρ᾽ ὦμον πλῆξ᾽ 5.147; τὸν.. κατ᾽ ἄκνηστιν μέσα νῶτα πλῆξα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.162)]; πὺξ πεπληγέμεν, of boxers, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.660; πλῆξ᾽ αὐτοσχεδίην 12.192)]; πεπληγὼς ἀγορῆθεν ἀεικέσσι πληγῇσιν having driven him with blows, [Refs (2.264)]; κῦμα.. μιν.. πλῆξεν struck him, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.431; ὦσε ποδὶ πλήξας 22.20)]; ἵππω πλήξαντε [ποσὶ τὸν νεκρόν] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.588; πέπληγον χορὸν ποσίν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.264)]; ἵππους ἐς πόλεμον πεπληγέμεν whip on the horses to the fray, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.728)]; of Zeus, strike with lightning, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 855:)] —middle, μηρὼ πληξάμενος having smitten his thighs, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.125; καὶ ὣ πεπλήγετο μηρώ 12.162 (but στῆθος πλήξας 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.17))]; πλήξασθαι τὴν κεφαλήν, as a token of grief, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.14)]:—passive, to be struck, smitten, πληγέντε κεραυνῷ stricken by lightning, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.455, etc.)]; of a ship, Διὸς πληγεῖσα κ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.416)]; of a tree, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 422, compare “Th.” 861)]; ἡ κριθὴ ἐπλήγη (by hail?) [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PPetr.” 2p.69 (3rd c.BC))]: frequently in Trag., πληγεὶς θεοῦ μάστιγι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 608; Διὸς πληγέντα.. πυρί 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 934)]; πληγείς τινος stricken by a man, [Refs ([prev. author] “Or.” 497 (assuming variant))]; ἔβραχε θύρετρα πληγέντα κληῗδι touched by the key, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.50; ὥσπερ τὰ χαλκία πληγέντα.. ἠχεῖ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 329a; ὑπὸ δόρατος πλαγεὶς δι᾽ ἀμφοτέρων τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν “IG” 42(1).122.64 (Epid., 4th c.BC))]: with accusative cognate, πέπληγμαι καιρίαν πληγήν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1343.)]
b sting, πληγεῖσα ὑπὸ σκορπίου [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“Sammelb.” 1267.6 (1st c.AD).)]
2 with accusative of the thing set in motion, κονίσαλον ἐς οὐρανὸν ἐπέπληγον πόδες ἵππων struck the dust up to heaven, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.504)]; Ζεὺς ἐπ᾽ Ἴδᾳ πλᾶξε κεραυνόν (for Ἴδαν πλᾶξε κεραυνῷ) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.71:)] —passive, πλήσσονται λινέαις ὄρτυγες ἐν νεφέλαις are dashed against the nets, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Aetia” 3.1.37.)]
3 strike or stamp as one does a coin, Κύπριος χαρακτὴρ.. ἐν γυναικείοις τύποις.. πέπληκται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 283.)]
4 of musical sounds, οὑτωσὶ πληγέντα οὕτως ἐφθέγξατο τὰ φωνήεντα [Refs 3rd c.AD+ (3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 3.3.5.)]
II metaphorically in passive, receive a blow, to be heavily defeated, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.120, 8.130, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.108, 8.38)]; to be stricken by misfortune, συμφορῇ πεπληγμένον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.41, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 31 (Lyric poetry))]; στρατὸν τοσοῦτον πέπληγμαι I am smitten in so great a host, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Pers.” 1015 (Lyric poetry); διανταίαν δόμοισι καὶ σώμασιν πεπλαγμένους [prev. author] “Th.” 896 (Lyric poetry); φθινάσιν πληγεῖσα νόσοις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 819 (_anapaest meter_).)]
II.2 to be smitten emotionally, ἱμέρῳ πεπληγμένοι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 544)]; also πληγέντες δώροισι touched by bribes, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.5; ἐξ ἔρωτος 4th-3rd c.BC: Hermesianax Elegiacus 7.42; τὴν καρδίαν πληγεὶς ὑπὸ λόγων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 218a, etc.)]
II.3 active of wines, when smelt or drunk, overpower, τὴν κεφαλήν [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(2).568, 15.672)]; shock, κατασεισμὸς πλήσσει [τινὰ] βιαίως [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.72)]:— passive, πληττομένη ἡ μήτρα [Refs ([prev. author] 2.59. (Cf. πλάζω,)] Latin plango, Gothic faiflōkun (reduplicate) 'they beat their breasts'.)