βοηθ-έω
(sometimes written βοιηθέω, [[ “IG” 22.237 (4th c.BC), “BGU” 1007.12 (3rd c.BC))] Refs 4th c.BC+], Ionic dialect βωθέω, only [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus βωθέοντες, not in 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus (but compare 12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 812.59) or 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+], compare βοηθήσω [[ “Michel” 12.15 (Erythrae, 4th c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; Doric dialect βοᾱθοέω [[ “SIG” 421.27 (from Thermon)] Refs]; Aeolic dialect βαθόημι (which see):—middle, future -ήσομαι[[ 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 1.128 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]:—come to aid, succour, assist, aid, with dative, τῇ σφετέρῃ [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.82; τοῖσιν ἠδικημένοις 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 79; πρὸς τοὺς αὑτῶν ψιλούς 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.2.3; τινὶ ἀντία τινός 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.99; τινὶ πρὸς τὸ ἄναντες 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.8.38 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ναυσὶ β. τινί πολιορκουμένῳ[[ [prev. work] 1.6.22; β. τοῖς φίλοις τὰ δίκαια [prev. author] “Mem.” 2.6.25 ] Refs]; β. τοῖς τῶν προγόνων ἀτυχήμασιν [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.169; β. τῷ λόγῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 88e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; β. τῷ θεῷ maintain his rights, Epist. Philipp. cited in [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.157; β. τοῖς νόμοις 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.33: with _dative_ et _accusative_, πατρὶ βοηθῶν θάνατον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 874c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a physician, β. τῷ θερμῷ ἐπὶ τὸ ψυχρόν [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 13: _absolutely_, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 19. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 absolutely, come to the rescue, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.30, 7.158, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 613, etc.; β. παρά τινα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.57 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπί τινα against one, [[ [prev. author] 1.62, 4.125, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.126, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; β. ἐς.. [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.103 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ.. [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.97, 4.72; ἐπὶ τὰς ναῦς [prev. author] 8.11; ἐκεῖσε 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.41 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; β. πρός τι contribute to an object, see reading in [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1155a14, compare “Metaphorical” 1079b16 ] Refs 4th c.BC+], or keep it off, [[ [prev. author] “Resp.” 474b24, “HA” 621a13 ] Refs]; χρήμασι with money, [[ [prev. author] “EN” 1130a19: in Medicine texts, βοηθεῖ πρὸς τὸ κώνειον] Refs] it is an antidote to.., [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 9.20.1; frequently in 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus as β. τοῖς φαγοῦσι 4.83. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]