χάζω
chazo
cause to retire
Appears 33 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
χάζω, A. cause to retire; Act. only in and in compd. ἀναχάζω (also παραχάζω, προχάζω ), and in Ep. redupl. aor. κέκᾰδον, fut. κεκᾰδήσω:—force to retire from, bereave or deprive of, τοὺς . . θυμοῦ καὶ ψυχῆς κεκαδών Il. 11.334; ἀριστῆας κεκαδήσει θυμοῦ καὶ ψυχῆς Od. 21.153,170. B. Med., χάζομαι, Il. 5.34, etc.; imper. χάζεο, χάζευ, ib.440, Cer. 54: Ep. impf. χάζετο Il. 16.736, 3 du. χαζέσθην 3.1320: fut. χάσομαι, Ep. χάσσομαι Il. 13.153: aor. 1 ἐχᾰσάμην, Ep. 3sg. χάσσατο ib.193, inf. χάσσασθαι 12.172; part. χασσάμενος 13.148, etc.: κεκάδοντο (for κεχάδοντο) 3pl. of redupl. aor. 2 κεκαδόμην, Il. 4.497, 15.574:—give way, draw or shrink back, recoil, freq. in Il. (never in Od.), χάζεο Il. 5.440; ὁ δὲ χασσάμενος πελεμίχθη 4.535; οὐδʼ ὅ γε πάμπαν χάζετʼ 12.407; ἂψ δʼ ἑτάρων εἰς ἔθνος ἐχάζετο 3.32, al.; αἰὲν ὀπίσσω χάζοντο 5.702, cf. 18.160, 1.c., l.c., D. 48.618. 2. c. gen., draw back or retire from, πυλάων χάσσασθαι Il. 12.172; χάζοντο κελεύθου 11.504; χάζεσθε μάχης 15.426; μίνυνθα δὲ χάζετο δουρός 11.539; ὁ δὲ χάσσατʼ ὀπίσσω νεκρῶν 13.193, cf. 17.357; less freq. with a Prep., χ. ἐκ βελέων 16.122; χάσσονται ὑπʼ ἔγχεος 13.153; οὐδὲ δὴν χάζετο φωτός nor in truth was he (or it, the stone) far from the man, i.e. nearly hit him, 16.736. Poet., and mainly Ep., exc. in the compds. ἀνα-, δια-χάζομαι (qq. vv.).—οὐχ ἅζομαι, οὐχ ἅζεται (not οὐ χάζ-), shd. be written in Or. 1116, Alc. 326, Eu. 389.
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