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ἀμφιπένομαι , Ep. only pres. and impf.,
A.= πένομαι ἀμφί τινα, to be busied about, take charge of, c. acc. pers., “οἵ μευ πατέρ᾽ ἀμφεπένοντο” Od.15.467; of people tending a wounded man, Il.4.220, 16.28, Od. 19.455: c. acc. rei, “δῶρα” Il.19.278; τάφον, στόλον, δόρπον, A.R. 2.925, 1199, 4.883; “ταῦρον” Id.3.271.
b. τὸν οὐ κύνες ἀμφεπένοντο dogs made not a meal of him, Il.23.184, cf. 21.203; “λέων . . ὅν τ᾽ ἐν ὄρεσσιν ἀνέρες ἀμφιπένονται” hem in, A.R.2.27.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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