Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“-άσω” Ph.(v. infr. 2) : aor. “ὤκλασα” S.OC196(lyr.), Plu. 2.320d :—Med., Ep. aor. opt. “ὀκλάσσαιντο” Euph.17 :—crouch down with bent hams, squat (in Hom. only μετοκλάζω), of a Persian dance, “ὤκλαζε καὶ ἐξανίστατο” X.An.6.1.10 (cf. ὄκλασμα) ; “διπλοῦς ὀκλάζων” S. Ichn.90 ; ἐς γόνυ ὀκλάσας δέχεται τῇ σαρίσσῃ τὴν ἐπέλασιν, of a soldier waiting an attack, Luc.DMort.27.4, cf. Philops.18 ; sink down, of a weary traveller, S. l.c. ; of oxen, Mosch.2.99 ; of horses that crouch down to let their rider mount, Plu.2.139b (but of horses that stumble and throw their rider, Procop. Vand.2.21, al.) ; of the wolf crouching down to let the Twins suck, Plu.2.320d ; θρόνος . . ὀκλάζων folding-seat, D.Chr.1.78 : c. acc., ὀ. τὰ ὀπίσθια, τοὺς προσθίους, bend their hind- or fore-legs, X.Eq.11.3, Ael.NA7.4 :—Med., Euph. l.c.

2. metaph., sink, slacken, abate, “ἀπειρίᾳ σοφιστικῶν παλαισμάτων ὀκλάσομεν” Ph.1.199 ; “τόνος ὀκλάζων” Gal.11.172 ; “ποδῶν δέ οἱ ὤκλασεν ὁρμή” Musae.325 ; of the wind, “τῆς φορᾶς” Hld.5.23, cf. Adam.Vent.37 ; ὤκλαζε αὐτοῖς ὁ θυμός ib.7 ; “κραδίης ὤκλασεν ὄγκος” AP5.250 (Iren.).

II. trans., abate, “ὀκλάσας τὸν πόθον” Hld.1.26.