ἐρευν-άω,
also ἐρευν-ίω [[ “GDI” 5075.35 (from Crete)] Refs], and ἐραυνάω (which see):— seek or search for, search after, track, ἴχνι᾽ ἐρευνῶντες κύνες ἤϊσαν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.436; μετ᾽ ἀνέρος ἴχνι᾽ ἐρευνῶν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.321; τεύχε᾽ ἐ. 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.180; τὴν σοφὴν εὐβουλίαν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 1038; θεῶν βουλεύματ᾽ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 61; νεκρούς 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1318; κακούργους 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.2.12; ἄν τινα οἴωμαι σοφὸν εἶναι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 23b. compare 41b; τὸ γραμματεῖον 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 25.61 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὧν..ἂν θεὸς χρείαν ἐρευνᾷ the things whereof he seeks after the use, i.e. whatever things he finds serviceable, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 725. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 search, explore a place, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.92.δ᾽, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus “Vit.Hippocr.” 3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τεναγέων ῥοάς [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.24; ὄρος 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 25.221; τοὺς ὑπόπτους τῶν τόπων 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “Tactica - Griechische Kriegsschriftsteller” 17: _absolutely_, εὑρήσεις ἐρευνῶν] Refs 5th c.BC+] thou wilt find by searching, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 13.113, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 268; εἰσβάντες εἰς τὸ πλοῖον ἠρεύνων 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.29. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 inquire after, φάτιν [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 662 (Lyric poetry); παίδων ἐρευνῶν σπέρμ᾽ ὅπως γένοιτό μοι [prev. author] “Med.” 669 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; examine into a question, [[[prev. work] 1084 (_anapaest meter_),compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 200e, +others:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —also in middle, διάνοια πᾶσαν φύσιν -ωμένη[[ [prev. work] 174a; οἰκημάτιον 2nd c.AD(?): Xenophon Ephesius Scriptor Eroticus 2.10. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]