ἀείδω,
Ionic dialect and poetry form used by [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus ] Refs 8th c.BC+], and sometimes in Trag. and Comedy texts (even in trimeter, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 16, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 188; intetram., 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 305)] Refs 5th c.BC+], also in Ionic dialect Prose; contraction ᾄδω (also [[ 6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 45, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus), Trag., 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus, etc.] Refs 6th c.BC+]: imperfect ἤειδον[[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”] Refs 8th c.BC+], Epic dialect ἄειδον[[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad”, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Trag. and Attic dialect ᾖδον[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 761, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.21] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future ἀείσομαι[[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.352, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 943, but ᾄσομαι “Hymni Homerici” 6.2, 32.19, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 243, and alwaysin _Attic dialect_ (ᾄσεις, σουσιν in 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1297, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 666d are corrupt)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; rarely in active form ἀείσω, [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 11, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 4, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1243 (_Laconian dialect_)] Refs 7th c.BC+], and late Poets, as [[ 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 13.47 (in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hercules Furens” 681 ἀείδω is restored by Elmsl.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; still more rarely ᾄσω, [[ 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 12.13, Men.Rh. p.381S., 4th c.AD: Himerius Sophista “Orationes” 1.6] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; Doric dialect ᾀσεῦμαι[[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 3.38, ᾀσῶ [prev. author] 1.145] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: aorist ἤεισα[[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 23.4, 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 3.1, _Epic dialect_ ἄεισα [ᾰ] 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.411; ἄεισον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 513 (Lyric poetry); ἀείσατε 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 115 (Lyric poetry); ᾖσα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1371, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 21b:] Refs 8th c.BC+] —middle, aorist ἀεισάμην (in active sense) [[ “PMag.Lond.” 47.43, _imperative_ ἀείσεο “Hymni Homerici” 17.1 (nisi to be read ἀείσεο)] Refs]:—passive, ἀείδομαι[[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: poetry imperfect ἀείδετο[[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist ᾔσθην, see below 11.1: perfect ᾖσμαι[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 69.11. (ἀϝείδω, compare αὐδή, ὑδέω.) [ᾰ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: but ᾱ for the sake of meter [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.519, “Hymni Homerici” 12.1, 27.1, “Il.Parv..” 1, 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 4, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.41, etc.]] Refs 8th c.BC+]:— sing, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.604, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: hence of all kinds of vocal sounds, crow as cocks, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Smp..” 223c;] Refs 5th c.BC+] hoot as owls, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 1000] Refs 4th c.BC+]; croak as frogs, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mirabilia” 835b3, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Signis Tempestatum” 3.5, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; οἱ τέττιγες χαμόθεν ᾄσονται Stes. cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1412a23] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—of other sounds, twang, of the bow-string, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.411] Refs 8th c.BC+]; whistle, of the wind through a tree, [[ 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus “fragment” 1.8] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; ring, of a stone when struck, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.26:] Refs 3rd c.BC+] —proverbial, πρὶν νενικηκέναι ᾄδειν 'to crow too soon', [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 164c.] Refs 5th c.BC+] —Constr.:—ἀ. τινί sing to one, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.346] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also, vie with one in singing, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 8.6] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ᾄ. πρὸς αὐλὸν ἢ λύραν sing to.., [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Pr..” 918a23; ὑπ᾽ αὐλοῖς 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.41c:—ἀείσας.. χαίρειν Δημοκλέα, poetry for εἰπών, “epigram Gr.” 237.7 (from Smyrna). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]