τρέω
treo
flee from fear, flee away
Appears 45 times across Homer's epics.
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Dictionary (LSJ)
τρέω, (v. infr.), Th. 790 (lyr.): Ep. impf. τρέον Sc. 213, 2 dual τρεέτην ib. 171: aor. ἔτρεσα Il. 11.745, Ep. τρέσσα 17.603: later Ep. pres. τρείω C. 1.417, (ὑπο-) 58.4:—this Verb is never contracted, except when the contraction is into ει:—
‹ All lexicon entries flee from fear, flee away ( held this to be the usual meaning in Homer), τρεῖν μʼ οὐκ ἐᾷ Παλλάς Il. 5.256; μήτε . . τρέε μήτε τι τάρβει 21.288; τρέσσε δὲ παπτήνας 11.546, 17.603; τρεῖτʼ ἄσπετον ib. 332: the sense of fleeing is most apparent in the phrases ἔτρεσαν ἄλλυδις ἄλλος 11.745, τρέσσαν δʼ ἄλλυδις ἄλλη Od. 6.138, τ. τεῖχος ὕπο Il. 22.143; τρεέτην Sc. 171; μὴ τρέσητε Supp. 711; μὴ τρέσας without fear, Th. 436; οὐδὲν τρέσας Phd. 117b; but,
2. τρέσας (cf. ἀνδρῶν τρεσσάντων Il. 14.522, 11.14) was a technical term at Sparta, and sts. used where we might say runaway, coward, ὁ τρέσας Ἀριστόδημος 7.231, cf. l.c., AP 7.230 (); οἱ ἐν τῇ μάχῃ καταδειλιάσαντες, οὓς αὐτοὶ τρέσαντας ὀνομάζουσι Ages. 30, cf. Lyc. 21, Apophth.reg. 2.191c, etc.:—and later a real Subst. was used in Com., τρεσᾶς, τρεσᾶ, acc. τρεσᾶν, 772.12, cf. Gramm. ap. Gaisford Choeroboscus 1p.43.
3. in Argive Prose, like Att. φεύγω, to be banished, τρέ̄το̄ καὶ δαμευέσσθο̄ IG 4.554 (vi/v B. C.).
II. trans., fear, dread, be afraid of, c. acc., Il. 11.554, Pae. 4.40, Th. 397, Ag. 549, al., Ant. 1042, Ph. 1077; ἄρκτον . . οὐκ ἔτρεσεν An. 1.9.6:—so also c. gen., κελάδοιο, δηϊοτῆτος, Th. 850: τ. μὴ . . Th. 790 (lyr.).— Rare in Prose. (Cf. Skt. trásati ‘to be terrified’, Gr. ἄτρεστος.)