ἐρωτ-άω,
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect εἰρωτάω, contraction in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] and best codices of [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus, as 3.119, 4.145, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]: imperfect ἠρώτων [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 7.3, (ἐπ-) 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.10, etc.; εἰρώτα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.423 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect εἰρώτευν [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.158, ] Refs 5th c.BC+]participle -τεῦντας variant in [[ 3.62 (elsewhere εἰρώτων 3.140)] Refs]: future -ήσω[[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 15, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 350e, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist I ἠρώτησα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.21, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 403, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect ἠρώτηκα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 18a:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —used in _Attic dialect_ to supply the defective tenses of ἔρομαι:—ask, τινά τι something of one, ἅ μ᾽ εἰρωτᾷς [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.347; εἰρωτᾷς μ᾽ ὄνομα κλυτόν 9.364; ὅσ᾽ ἄν σ᾽ ἐρωτῶ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1122; οὐ τοῦτ᾽ ἐρωτῶ σ᾽ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 641 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, to be asked, τι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 895e, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 ἐ. τι ask about a thing, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 228, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 508a; τιπερί τινος [prev. author] “Tht.” 185c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐ. ἐρώτημα to ask a question, [[ [prev. author] “R.” 487e ] Refs]; τὰς πύστεις ἐρωτῶντες εἰ.. putting the question, whether.., [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.5:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, τὸ ἐρωτηθέν, τὸ ἐρωτώμενον ἀποκρίνασθαι, to answer the question, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.61, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 4.2.23, etc.; τὰ ἔμπροσθεν ἠρωτημένα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 662e:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, also with person as subject, ἐρωτηθεὶς τὸ καλόν asked about beauty, [[ [prev. author] “Hp.Ma.” 289c. ] Refs]