ἔδω
edo
eat
Appears 59 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
ἔδω, old Ep. pres. (also VM 4 (v.l.), 5.128), for which in Att. ἐσθίω is used, Ep. inf. ἔδμεναι, ἐέδμεναι 128.10 (s.v.l.): impf. ἔδον, Ion. 3sg. ἔδεσκε Il. 22.501: fut. ἔδομαι 18.271, Od. 9.369, 3.53: pf. part. ἐδηδώς Il. 17.542, h.Merc. 560:—Pass., pf. ἐδήδοται Od. 22.56: aor. 1 subj. ἐδεσθῇ dub. l. in Vict. 2.54:—for the Att. forms, v. sub ἐσθίω; cf. also ἔσθω:—A. eat, εἰωθότες ἔδμεναι ἄδην Il. 5.203; ὅσσα τοι ἐκπέποται καὶ ἐδήδοται Od. 22.56; of worms, Il. 22.509, cf. Od. 21.395; κύτισόν τε καὶ αἴγιλον αἶγες ἔδοντι 5.128.—Rare in Com., 36, 28; also Cyc. 245. II. eat up, devour, esp. in phrases, βίοτον καὶ κτήματα, οἶκον, χρήματα ἔ., Od. 2.123, 16.431,389; ἡμέτερον κάματον νήποινον ἔδουσι 14.417. III. metaph., καμάτῳ τε καὶ ἄλγεσι θυμὸν ἔδοντες 9.75, cf. 10.379, Il. 24.129, 1.24 (s.v.l.).
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