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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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orgê, hê, natural impulse or propensity (v. orgaô II): hence, temperament, disposition, mood, kêphênessi kothourois eikelos orgên Hes. WD 304, cf. Thgn.98,au=Thgn. 214,au=Thgn. 964, etc. ; orgên allot' alloiên echei Semon.7.11 ; so meilichos, glukeia orga, Pind. P. 9.43,ti=Pind. I. 2.35 ; euanthei en orgai parmenôn IDEM=Pind. P. 1.89 ; orgês trachutês Aesch. PB 80 ; ômê, ateramnos orgê, IDEM=Aesch. Supp. 187, ti=Aesch. PB 192, etc. ; orgês nosousês eisin iatroi logoi of 'a mind diseased', IBID=au=Aesch. PB 380: so in pl., HH 2.205, Pind. I. 5.34 ; orgais alôpekôn ikeloi IDEM=Pind. P. 2.77 ; knôdalôn echontes orgas Aesch. Supp. 763 ; astunomoi orgai social dispositions, Soph. Ant. 356 (lyr., cf. suntrophos 3); orgai êpioi Eur. Tro. 53 : also in Prose, diepeirato autôn tês te andragathiês kai tês orgês Hdt. 6.128 ; ou têi autêi o. anapeithomenous te polemein kai en tôi ergôi prassontas Thuc. 1.140 ; têi o . . . chalepêi echrêto IBID=au=Thuc. 1.130=lr ; epipherein orgas tini suit one's moods to another, IDEM=Thuc. 8.83, cf. Cratin.230 ; ho polemos pros ta paronta tas o. tôn pollôn homoioi Thuc. 3.82 ; tên tôn pollôn . . suniontôn o . . . sophian hêgoumenos Plat. Rep. 493d.

II. anger, wrath, orgêi chrêsthai to be in a passion, Hdt. 6.85, Soph. OT 1241; orgên poiêsasthai Hdt. 3.25 ; orgên poieisthai ei . . Thuc. 4.122 ; orgêi charin dounai Soph. OC 855 ; orgêi eixai, charizesthai, Eur. Hel. 80, ti=E. Fr.31 ; orgên echein tini Aristoph. Peace 659 (but o. echei involves anger, Dem. 10.44); di' orgês echein tina Thuc. 5.46 ; en orgêi echein, poieisthai tina, IDEM=Thuc. 2.65, Dem. 1.16 ; ou tithetai tauta par' humin eis . . hên prosêken o. IDEM=Dem. 18.138 ; eis orgên pesein Eur. Orest. 696, etc. ; orgêi peripeptôkenai Dem. L. 2.14; anienai tês orgês, orgên chalan, remit one's anger, be pacified, Aristoph. Frogs 700, ti=Aristoph. Wasps 727; o. katechein Philem.185 ; orgês kratein Men.574 ; o. empoiein tini make one angry, Plat. Laws 793e ; orgês tunchanein to be visited with anger, Dem. 21.175, etc.; orgên akros quick to anger, passionate, Hdt. 1.73: in pl., orgas aphienai Aesch. PB 317; phainein IDEM=Aesch. Lib. 326 (lyr.), al.