Μακρὰ χαίρειν

[to say] a long goodbye, to dismiss

Translated by Catharine Roth8 Apr 2009Vetting: high2 revisions

8 words

[Meaning to tell someone] to lament, to groan.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μακρὰ χαίρειν· οἰμώζειν, στενάζειν.

Betacode

*makra\ xai/rein: oi)mw/zein, stena/zein.

Same entry in other lexica: see the references at Photius mu51 Theodoridis. The expression is attested in Plutarch, Galen, Lucian, Athenaeus, Cassius Dio, Aelian, and Christian writers.

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