A.v.l. κρεμνῶν): pres. part. κρεμάντες Ath.1.25d: fut. κρεμάσω [α^] Alc.Com.8, LXX Ge.40.19; Att. κρεμῶ, ᾷς, ᾷ, Ar.Pl.312 (lyr.); Ep. “κρεμόω” Il.7.83: aor. 1 “ἐκρέμα^σα” Ar.Th. 1028, Ep. and Lyr. “κρέμασα” Od.8.67, Pi.P.4.192; Dor. inf. “κραμάσαι” IG42(1).122.3 (Epid.); pf. “κεκρέμα^κα” Corn.ND17:—Med., aor. inf. “κρεμάσασθαι” Hes.Op.629, subj. “ἐκ-κρεμάσωμαι” AP5.91 (Rufin.):— Pass., κρέμαμαι , Pi.P.5.34, Ar.Av.1387 (also “κρεμᾶται” Anacreont. 16.17); inf. “κρέμασθαι” Hp.VM10, Acut.30, Antiph.74.4; subj. “κρέμωμαι” Hp.Art.70, Arist.Rh.1415a13; opt. “κρεμαίμην” Ar.Ach.945, V. 298, Nu.870: impf. ἐκρεμάμην, ω, ατο, Il.15.21, etc.: fut. κρεμήσομαι in pass. sense, Ar.Ach.279, V.808, PCair.Zen.202.9 (iii B. C.): aor. “ἐκρεμάσθην” Ar.Th.1053, etc.: pf. imper. “κεκρεμάσθω” Apollod. Poliorc.181.7, v.l. in Archim.Quadr.13: plpf. “κατα-κεκρέμαστο” D.S. 18.26. (Cf. κρημνός, Goth. hramjan 'crucify'):
I. hang up, “σειρὴν . . ἐξ οὐρανόθεν κρεμάσαντες” Il.8.19; “τόξον ἐκ πίτυος” A.Fr. 251; “ἀπὸ κάλω κ. σαυτόν” Ar.Ra.122; καὶ κρεμόω προτὶ νηόν will bring them to the temple and hang them up there as an offering, Il. 7.83; “κ. τινὰ τῶν ὄρχεων” Ar.Pl.312; κ. [τὰς ὗς] τῶν ὀπισθίων σκελῶν by the hind legs, Arist.HA632a23; κρεμάσας τὸ νόημα, in allusion to Socrates in his basket, Ar.Nu.229, cf. Alex.126.17; κρεμάσαι τὴν ἀσπίδα hang up one's shield, i.e. have done with war, Ar.Ach.58; “τὴν πανοπλίαν” Id.Av.436:—so in Med., πηδάλιον κρεμάσασθαι hang up one's rudder, i.e. give up the sea, Hes.Op.629.
II. Pass., to be hung up, suspended, ὅτε τ᾽ ἐκρέμω (2sg.impf.) ὑψόθεν when thou wert hanging, Il.15.18, cf. 21; “μηδ᾽ ὁ Ταντάλου λίθος τῆσδ᾽ ὑπὲρ νήσου κρεμάσθω” Archil.53; to be hung up as a votive offering, Pi.P. 5.34, cf. Hdt.1.34, 66, etc.; “τὰ σπλάγχνα οἱ δοκέει κρέμασθαι” Hp.VM 10; “κάτω κρέμανται” S.Fr.431; “κρεμήσεται . . ἐπὶ τοῦ παττάλου” Ar.V. 808; “κ. ἐφ᾽ ἵππων” X.An.3.2.19; “ἐκ ποδῶν κατωκάρα κ.” Ar.Ach.945; “αἱ μέλιτται κ. ἐξ ἀλλήλων” Arist.HA627b13: metaph., “ἀμφὶ φρασὶν ἀμπλακίαι κρέμανται” Pi.O.7.25; μῶμος κρέματαί τινι censure hangs over him, ib.6.74; “δόλιος αἰὼν ἐπ᾽ ἀνδράσι κ.” Id.I.8(7).14; κρέμασθαι ἔκ τινος to be wholly taken up with a thing, Pl.Lg.831c; “ὁ ἐκ τοῦ σώματος κρεμάμενος” X.Smp.8.19.
2. to be hanged, of persons, E. Hipp.1252, Aristopho 9.10, PCair.Zen.l.c.