διψ-άω,
late Epic dialect διψ-ώω [[ 3rd-4th c.AD: Tryphiodorus Epicus 548, “Anthologia Graeca” 11.57 (6th c.AD: Agathias Historicus et Epigrammaticus)] Refs 3rd c.AD+]: Ionic dialect διψ-έω [[ 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 68 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; participle διψεῦσα [[ “Anthologia Graeca” 6.21 ] Refs]; contraction 3rd.pers. singular διψῇ [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.6, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 35b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; infinitive διψῆν [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.24, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 735, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 441, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: imperfect 3rd.pers. singular ἐδίψη [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 3.1.β,γ (διψᾷς, -ᾷ, -ᾶν] Refs 5th c.BC+] only in later writers, [[ “APl.” 4.137 (1st c.AD: Philippus Epigrammaticus), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Axiochus” 366a, LXX.Isa.29.8, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 5.837)] LXX+5th c.BC+]: future -ήσω[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐδίψησα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 562c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect δεδίψηκα [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ καρδίης” 2, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pompeius” 73:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —middle (see. below):—thirst, στεῦτο δὲ διψάων [ᾱ] [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.584, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of the ground, to be thirsty, parched, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.24; δ. ὑπὸ καύματος 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 39.2 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; of trees, [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 3.22.5 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—middle, διψώμεθα [[ 5th c.BC: Hermippus Comicus 25. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, δ. τινός thirst after a thing, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.6; ἐλευθερίας 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 562c: later with _accusative_, δ. Χῖον 3rd c.BC: Teles Philosophus p.8 H.; φόνον “APl.” 4.137 (1st c.AD: Philippus Epigrammaticus); δικαιοσύνην NT.Matt.5.6; αἷμα 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 1.32.2; also δ. πρὸς τὸν θεόν LXX.Psa.41(42).2: with _dative_, ὕδατιLXX.Exo.17.3 ] NT+5th c.BC+]: with infinitive, διψῶ χαρίζεσθαι ὑμῖν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 5.1.1; ἀκρατῶς ἐδίψη οἴνου πίνειν 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Varia Historia” 2.41, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]