νήχω,
Doric dialect νάχω (προσ-, which see):— swim, νηχέμεναι μεμαώς [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.375 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; νῆχε[[ [prev. work] 399; νῆχον πάλιν 7.280; νῆχον ἐπ᾽ ἄκρον ὕδωρ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 317; νήχει 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 590 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—mostly middle νήχομαι, participle νηχόμενος [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.276, 14.352, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 211 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; infinitive νήχεσθαι [[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 172 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]: poetry imperfect νήχοντο [[ Titanomachia 4 (conjecture for -οντες)] Refs]: future νήξομαι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.364, Timo 32 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist ἐνήξατο [[ 3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 76 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; participle νηξαμένη [[ “Anthologia Graeca” 9.36 (2nd c.AD: Secundus Gnomologus)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: the middle forms alone used in later Prose, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.84.9, 5.48.9, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.1063b, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Dom.” 1, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 3.11, and in compounds (_future_ νήξω] Refs 2nd c.BC+] falsa lectio in [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 9.25). ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]