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θέω

theo

run

Appears 105 times across Homer's epics.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

θέω (A), Ep. also θείω, Il. 6.507, 10.437 (in Att. the syllables εο, εου, εω are not contr.); Ep. subj. θέῃσι 22.23; 3sg. impf. ἔθει Od. 12.407 and later, ἔθεε Il. 1.483, Hdt. 1.43 (and in later Prose, D.S. 16.94); Ep. θέε Il. 20.275, Hes. Sc. 224; Ion. impf. θέεσκον Il. 20.229: fut. θεύσομαι 23.623, Ar. Eq. 485,Av. 205, (ὑπο-) Pi. P. 2.84, (ἀντι-) Hdt. 5.22, (μετα-) X. Cyn. 6.22; θεύσω Lyc. 1119: aor. 1 ἔθευσα (δι-) Vett.Val. 345.35, part. θεύσας IGRom. 4.1740 (Cyme):—the other tenses are supplied by τρέχω and *δρέμω : (θεϝ-, Skt. dhávate):— A. run, ποσί, πόδεσσι, Od. 8.247, Il. 23.623; βῆ δὲ θέειν 17.698; θέῃσι τιταινόμενος πεδίοιο 22.23; ποῖ θεῖς; Ar. V. 854; θᾶττον θανάτου θεῖ [ἡ πονηρία] Pl. Ap. 39b; ὁ βραδέως θέων Id. Hp.Mi. 373d; of horses, Id. Cra. 423a; ἐν Ὀλυμπίᾳ θεόντων ἵππων Id. Lg. 822b: in part. with another Verb, ἦλθε θέων, ἦλθε θέουσα, came running, Il. 6.54,394, etc.; ἷξε θέων, of a person on ship-board, Od. 3.288; θέων Αἴαντα κάλεσσον run and call him, Il. 12.343, etc. 2. περὶ τρίποδος γὰρ ἔμελλον θεύσεσθαι to run for a tripod, 11.701: metaph. (cf. τρέχω II.2), περὶ ψυχῆς θέον Ἕκτορος they were running for Hectorʼs life, 22.161; θ. περὶ ὑμέων αὐτῶν Hdt. 8.140.αʹ; θ. <τον> περὶ τοῦ παντὸς δρόμον ib.74; περὶ γυναικῶν καὶ παίδων Paus. 6.18.3. 3. metaph., θ. ἐς νόσους Pl. Lg. 691c; θ. ἐγγύτατα ὀλέθρου Id. R. 417b; θεῖν παρὰ τὸν ἔσχατον κίνδυνον Plu. Fab. 26. II. of other kinds of motion, as, 1. of birds, θεύσονται δρόμῳ Ar. Av. 205. 2. of things, run; of ships, ἡ δʼ ἔθεεν κατὰ κῦμα Il. 1.483, cf. X. HG 6.2.29; of a potterʼs wheel, Il. 18.601; of a rolling stone, 13.141; of a quoit, ῥίμφα θέων ἀπὸ χειρός flying lightly . . , Od. 8.193. 3. metaph., δύναμις θαυμαστὴ ἐκεῖ θεῖ Plot. 2.9.8, cf. 6.5.11. III. of things not actually in motion, [φλὲψ] ἀνὰ νῶτα θέουσα διαμπερές Il. 13.547; ἄντυξ ἣ πυμάτη θέεν ἀσπίδος 6.118; ἀμφὶ δέ μιν κίβισις θέε Hes. Sc. 224; γραμμῆς περὶ [σημεῖον] θεούσης Plot. 6.5.11. IV. c. acc. loci, run over, τὰ ὄρη X. Cyn. 4.6, cf. 5.17; μέσσα θέων πελάγευς AP 7.273 (Leon.), cf. 10.23 (Autom.); πλωτῶν γένος ὑγρὰ θεόντων Opp. H. 3.183.—The simple Verb is used in Trag. only by E. Ion 1217.
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