ἐσθίω
(compare ἔσθω, ἔδω, the latter of which is the radical form, and supplies future and perfect of ἐσθίω), imperfect ἤσθιον [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 147: ] Refs 8th c.BC+]future ἔδομαι (old present subjunctive of non-thematic stem) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.237, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1357 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 8th c.BC+], etc.; ἐδοῦμαι late, (προκατ-) [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hes.” 7, etc.] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: perfect ἐδήδοκα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 362, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.8.20; _optative_ ἐδηδοκοίη 5th c.BC: Cratinus Comicus 320 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect participle ἐδηδώς, -υῖα, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.542, “hymnus ad Mercurium” 560 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἐδηδόκειν [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Gall.” 4 (variant):] Refs 2nd c.AD+] —middle, aorist 1 ἠδεσάμην (κατ-) [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 5.752] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—passive, ἐσθίομαι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.318, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 1.12.4, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Cyn.” 11, etc.: ] Refs 8th c.BC+]aorist 1 ἠδέσθην variant in [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης” 2.54, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Problemata” 908a29, (ἀπ-, κατ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 138, 35: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]perfect ἐδήδεσμαι (κατ-) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 110e, ἐδήδεμαι (ἀπ-) 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 591a5 (variant) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular ἐδήδοται [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.56.] Refs 8th c.BC+] — The aorist 2 and later also the future are supplied by φαγ- (see. φαγεῖν); in Ionic dialect and Hellenistic Greek the perfect is βέβρωκα βέβρωμαι, aorist passive ἐβρώθη; in late Greek the present is τρώγω:—eat, ἐσθιέμεν καὶ πινέμεν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.305, 21.69 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὰ ἐσθίοντα ἐν στρατιᾷ the ration-strength, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.17: usually with _accusative_, κρέα ἤσθιον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.348, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 671 (from a satyric drama), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 233: with _genitive_, ἐ. τινός ] Refs 8th c.BC+]eat of.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.3.6, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of animals, devour, ἤσθιε δ᾽ ὥς τε λέων ὀρεσίτροφος [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.292; χρόα γῦπες ἔδονται 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.237, compare 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 524, 773, 7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 9, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; consume, βίοτον καὶ κτήματ᾽ ἔδονται [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.123:] Refs 8th c.BC+] —passive, ἐσθίεταί μοι οἶκος my house is eaten up, I am eaten out of house and home,[[ 4.318; ὅσσα τοι ἐκπέποται καὶ ἐδήδοται 22.56. ] Refs]