Lexicon for Iliad 1, 3, 6, 21 & 24 (draft) 1 - CW's language page

Lexicon for Iliad 1, 3, 6, 21 & 24 (draft)
Hes.; e)/gxei o)reca/sqw let him lunge with the spear (from the chariot, instead of dismounting), Il.; possi o)rwre/xatai
polemi/zein, of horses, they stretched themselves, galloped, to the fight, Il.; o)re/cat' i)w/n he stretched himself as he
went, i. e. went at full stride, Il.; o)rwre/xato proti\ deirh/n stretched themselves with the neck (like Virgil's irasci in
cornua, in clipeum assurgere), Il.:—of fish, to rise at the bait, Theocr. • c. gen. to reach at or to a thing, grasp at, ou(=
paido\s o)re/cato he reached out to his child, Il.; also in a hostile sense, tou= *qrasumh/dhs e)/fqh o)reca/menos w)=mon
hit him first on the shoulder, Il.; so, e)/fqh o)reca/menos ske/los (sc. au)tou=) Il. • metaph. to reach after, grasp at, yearn
for a thing, c. gen., Eur., Thuc., etc.:—c. inf., po/lin w)re/cat' oi)kei=n Eur. • c. acc. to help oneself to, si=ton Eur.
ορεσκωιος o)res-kw=|os, on, • (