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ἐρείδω,
Epic dialect imperfect [[ ἔρειδον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.131 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: future [[ ἐρείσω 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 234, 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “Or.” 17(15).10 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+] codices: aorist 1 [[ ἤρεισα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1236, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phdr.” 254e, “Ti.” 91e; _Boeotian dialect_ 3rd._person_ etc for 1st._person_, 2nd._person_ _sing._ εἴρισε 6th c.BC: Corinna Lyrica “Supp.” 1.32 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; Epic dialect ἔρεισα (ἐπ-) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.269 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect ἤρεικα (συν-) [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Morb.Sacr.” 7, (προσ-) 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.60.8; but ἐρήρεικα 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus “Eup.” 1.84, (προσ-) 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aem.” 19:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —middle, future ἐρείσομαι (ἀπ-) [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Pr.” 885b29, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 15.25.25 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: aorist 1 [[ ἠρεισάμην {8-7th c.BC}: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 362, (ἀπ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “R.” 508d; _Epic dialect_ ἐρ- 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.309 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, [[ 3 ] Refs] future [[ ἐρηρείσεται 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 2.133 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: Epic dialect aorist 1 [[ ἐρείσθην 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.145 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect [[ ἐρήρεισμαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.152, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 78 (but _2nd pers._ _sing._ ἠρήρεισθα 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 94 is from ἀραρίσκω); also ἤρεισμαι Ti. _Locrian dialect_ 98e (ἐρήρ- [prev. work] 97e), 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.12, 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 6.25.5; _Ionic dialect_ 3rd._person_ etc for 1st._person_, 2nd._person_ _plural_ ] Refs 7th c.BC+] perfect [[ ἐρηρέδαται 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.284, 329, _Epic dialect_ ἐρήρεινται 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.320 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: pluperfect [[ ἠρήρειστο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.136 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; 3rd.person etc for 1st.person, 2nd.person plural [[ ἐρηρέδατο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.95, ἠρήρειντο 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.1398:— 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses the augment only in ἠρήρειστο, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Sc.” 362 in ἠρείσατο.—_Epic dialect_, _Ionic dialect_, and poet. Verb, also found in 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] and later Prose:—cause to lean, prop, [[ δόρυ..πρὸς τεῖχος ἐρείσας 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.112; θρόνον πρὸς κίονα μακρὸν ἐρείσας 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.66; πύργῳ ἔπι προὔχοντι..ἀσπίδ᾽ ἐρείσας 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.97 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; [νέκυας] ἀλλήλοισιν ἐ. piling them against each other, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.450; ἐρείσατε..πλευρὸν ἀμφιδέξιον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1112 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πρὸς στέρν᾽ ἐρείσας (i.e. τοὺς παῖδας) [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “HF” 1362, compare “Ba.” 684; τὰ ἰσχία πρὸς τὴν γῆν Plato Philosophus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Phaedrus” 254e; ἐ. τινὰ εἰς ἕδραν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 603; τὰς κεφαλὰς εἰς γῆν Plato Philosophus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Timaeus” 91e; ἐς χεῖρας ἐ. τι 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.104; ἐ. τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐπὶ γῆς Plato Philosophus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Timaeus” 43e; τὸ γόνυ κατὰ τοῦ ἰσχίου Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus [{1-2nd c.AD}] “Flamininus” 20; ῥόῳ ἔνι κάλπιν 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.1234 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]: generally, fix firmly, plant, [[ ἄγκυραν χθονί 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.51; εἰς γῆν ἐ. ὄμμα 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1123, compare 2nd c.AD: Aristides Rhetor “Or.” 17(15).10; ἐπὶ χθονὸς ὄμματ᾽ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.784 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐ. πόδας ἐς βένθος plant the foot firm, [[[prev. work] 1010: _metaphorically_, ἐ. τὰν γνώμαν] Refs] fix one's mind firmly on a thing, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 21.61. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __2 prop up, support, stay, ἀσπὶς ἄρ᾽ ἀσπίδ᾽ ἔρειδε, κόρυς κόρυν, ἀνέρα δ᾽ ἀνήρ, of close ranks of men-atarms, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.131; ἐπ᾽ ἀσπίδος ἀσπίδ᾽ ἔρεισον 7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 11.31; πέλτην ἐρεῖσαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 487; κίον᾽ οὐρανοῦ τε καὶ χθονὸς ὤμοιν ἐ. Aeschylus Tragicus [{4-5th c.BC}] “Prometheus Vinctus” 352 ] Refs 8th c.BC+].
__3 press hard, attack, τινα [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 9.32: obscene meaning, ἐ. γυναῖκα Aristophanes Comicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Ecclesiazusae” 616, “fragment” 74. ] Refs 6th c.BC+]
__4 push, thrust, [[ ὅπῃ κέ τις..ἐρείδῃ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 12.3; ἔπη..ἤρειδε κατὰ τῶν ἱππέων _hurled forth..,?? Aristophanes Comicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Equites” 627; ὁ χορὸς ἤρειδεν ὁρμαθοὺς μελῶν τέτταρας [prev\. author] “Ra.” 914 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]:—middle, [[ ἔπος πρὸς ἔπος ἠρειδόμεσθ᾽ [prev\. author] “Nu.” 1375 ] Refs].
__5 infix, plant in, [[ πλευραῖς ἔγχος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1236 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀνταίαν πληγήν inflict it, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Andr.” 844 (Lyric poetry):] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, ἄλγημα ἐρηρεισμένον fixed pain, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 8.385. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__6 press down, depress, [[ πλάστιγγα τοῦ βίου 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “fragment” 576.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+].
__7 of wagers or matches, match, set one pledge against another, [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 5.24. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II intransitive, press hard, [[ ἀμφ᾽ αὐτῷ πελεμίξαι ἐρείδοντες βελέεσσιν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.108; εἴς τινα Aristophanes Comicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Nubes” 558; νέφος ἐ. ἐπὶ γῆν Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus [{1-2nd c.AD}] “Numa” 2; πνεῦμα κατὰ τῆς σχεδίας [prev\. author] “Crass.” 19 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of an illness or pain, settle upon a particular part, [[ νόσος ὁμότοιχος ἐ. Aeschylus Tragicus [{4-5th c.BC}] “Agamemnon” 1004 (Lyric poetry), compare 2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 45.30.27, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus ] Refs 5th c.BC+] 11.61; exert pressure: hence, rest, [[ ἐπὶ τὸ ἔδαφος Hero Mechanicus [{2-1st c.BC} (?)] “Automatopoetica” 2.7 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+].
__II.2 set to work, fall to, especially of eating, [[ ἔρειδε Aristophanes Comicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Pax” 31, compare 25 (where, _accusative_ to Scholia, it is _metaphorically_ from rowers); ἐρείδετον [prev\. author] “fragment” 493 ] Refs 6th c.BC+].
__II.3 become fixed, [[ πρῴρα ἐρείσασα “Act.Ap.” 27. 41. ] Refs]
__III middle and passive, prop oneself, lean upon, τῷ ὅ γ᾽ ἐρεισάμενος (i.e. σκήπτρῳ) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.109; ἔγχει ἐ. 14.38; ἐπὶ μελίης..ἐρεισθείς 22.225 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: with genitive, ἐρείσατο χειρὶ παχείῃ γαίης leant with his hand against the earth, [[ 5.309: _absolutely_, ἐρεισάμενος βάλε _having planted himself firm, taken a firm stand,?? 12.457, compare 16.736 ] Refs]; of one fallen, [[ ὁ δ᾽ ὕπτιος οὔδει ἐρείσθη 7.145, 11.144 ] Refs]; οὔδεϊ..σφι χαῖται ἐρηρέδαται their hair rests on the ground, [[ 23.284; γόνατος κονίαισιν ἐρειδομένου] Refs] set, planted in.., [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Ag.” 64 (_anapaest meter_); τοῖσι γούνασι ἐρηρεισμένοι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.152; ταῖς χερσὶν ἐπὶ δόρατι ἠρεισμένος 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 6.25.5, compare 1st c.AD: Cornutus Philosophus “ND” 9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; press closely, be tight, of bandages, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Off.” 8; τοὺς ὀδόντας ἐρήρεισται] Refs 5th c.BC+] has her teeth clenched, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus cited in 1st c.AD: Erotianus Grammaticus (ξυνερήρ. codices 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III.2 to be fixed firm, planted, [[ ἔγχος διὰ θώρηκος ἠρήρειστο _had been fixed,_ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.358, etc.; λᾶε ἐρηρέδαται _stand firmly fixed,?? 23.329; θρόνοι περὶ τοῖχον ἐρηρέδατ᾽ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.95; ἁ γᾶ ἐρήρεισται ἐπὶ τᾶς αὐτᾶς ῥοπᾶς Ti.Locrian dialect 97e ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: absolutely, [[ δίκας ἐρείδεται πυθμήν _is set firm,?? Aeschylus Tragicus [{4-5th c.BC}] “Choephori” 646 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] (Lyric poetry); opposed to πλανᾶσθαι, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “GA” 720a12; ἐρηρεικός,] Refs 4th c.BC+] of a bone stuck in the throat, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus “Eup.” 1.84. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__III.3 ἐρείδεσθαι ναυαγίαις to be driven ashore in shipwreck, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 1.36. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV.1 in reciprocal sense, struggle one with another, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.735 (variant{ἐρίζεσθον}). ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__IV.2 with accusative, support or set firmly for oneself, [[ πλησίον ἠρείσαντο καρήατα Simonides Lyricus [{4-5th c.BC}] 172; βάκτρῳ δ᾽ ἐρείδου..στίβον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 743; ἐπὶ γαῖαν ἴχνος “AP” 12.84 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus); ἐπὶ τοίχῳ λίθον 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 23.49; ἐπὶ χειρὶ παρειήν 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.1160; χεῖρας σκηπανίῳ “AP” 6.83 (1st c.AD(?): Macedonius Epigrammaticus); ἐπὶ σκίπωνος τὸ γῆρας [prev. work] 7.457 (from Aristo); ἐς πόλον ἐκ γαίης μῆτιν ἐ.] Refs 5th c.BC+] to raise one's thoughts.., [[[prev. work] 9.782 (Paul. Sil.). ] Refs]
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