ἐάω,
contraction ἐῶ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.428, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect εἰῶ [[ 4.55; _Epic dialect_ 2 and _3rd.pers._ _sing._ ἐάᾳς, ἐάᾳ, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.137, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.414 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; infinitive ἐάαν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.509: ] Refs 8th c.BC+]imperfect εἴων,-ας, -α, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.448, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.25, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.28, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect and Epic dialect ἔων [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.2, ἔα 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.517, 16.731; also ἔασκον or εἴασκον, 2.832, 5.802 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], etc.: future ἐάσω [ᾱ] [[ 18.296 ] Refs], etc.: aorist εἴᾱσα (εἴᾰσεν is variant for{εἴᾱς}' in [[ 10.299) 24.684, etc.] Refs]; Epic dialect ἔᾱσα [[ 11.437 ] Refs]: perfect εἴᾱκα [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.37, 43.78, 3rd c.BC: Cercidas Iambographus 17.35:] Refs 4th c.BC+] —passive, future ἐάσομαι in passive sense, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 331, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.142 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist εἰάθην [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 4.97 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect passive εἴᾱμαι [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 45.22.— 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] never uses the augment in this Verb. [ᾰ in present and imperfect, ᾱ in future and aorist even in Ionic dialect (so probably in [[ 6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 56, 57 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; forms with -ασς- occur as variants in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and 4th-5th c.BC: Parmenides Poeta Philosophus 8.7)] Refs 8th c.BC+]. Synizesis occurs in 3rd.pers. singular ἐᾷ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.256, in 1 ] Refs 8th c.BC+] subjunctive ἐῶμεν [[ 10.344, and probably in ἐάσουσιν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.233 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also in Trag., in imperative ἔα [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1451, “Ant.” 95, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 932; _indicative_ ἐῶ [prev. author] “Lys.” 734: 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus has the form ἦσεν· εἴασεν, compare ἦσαι· παῦσαι]] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—suffer, permit, with accusative person et infinitive, τούσδε δ᾽ ἔα φθινύθειν leave them alone to perish, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.346; αἴ κεν ἐᾷ με.. ζώειν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.359, etc.; ἐᾶν οἰκεῖν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.48, compare “IG” 12.1; ἐ. τοὺς Ἕλληνας αὐτονόμους [prev. work]2.17.9; ἐᾶν ἄκλαυτον, ἄταφον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 29, compare “Tr.” 1083; ἐᾶν τί τινι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.233d:] Refs 8th c.BC+] —so in passive, Κρέοντί γε θρόνους ἐᾶσθαι should be given up, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 368. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]