εὔχομαι,
imperfect εὐχόμην (Attic dialect ηὐ-) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.275, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: future εὔξομαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 622 (_anapaest meter_), etc.: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist 1 εὐξάμην (Attic dialect ηὐ-) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.254, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: 2nd pers. singular subjunctive εὔξεαι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.45: (augment ηὐ] Refs 8th c.BC+]- only Attic dialectaccusative to Hdn.[[Gr. 2.789, 2nd c.AD: Moeris Grammaticus 175)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: —pray, θεοῖς [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.296, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.64, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.58, etc.; ἀγάλμασι 1st c.AD(?): Heraclitus 5; ἀνέμοισι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.178; Ἀργείοισι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 980: c._accusative_ _cognate_, εὐχὰς εὔ. τοῖς θεοῖς 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.130 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; εὐχὰς ὑπέρ τινος πρὸς τοὺς θεοὺς εὔ. [[ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.18 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; εὔ. ἔπος to utter it in prayer, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 37.19, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.2, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 1059 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μεγάλα, μέγα εὔ., pray aloud, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.275, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 17.239; πολλὰ Ποσειδάωνι 3.54: later, c._accusative_, Ἄρτεμιν εὔ. “Anthologia Graeca” 9.268 (Antip. Thess.): _absolutely_, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.298, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 465 (Lyric poetry), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Fragmenta” 39 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator (Lyric poetry), etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 with accusative et infinitive, pray that, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.353, 21.211, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.31 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of an unrealizable wish [[compare (εὐχή 2), 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1118a32, compare 3rd c.BC: Macho Comicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 8.341d ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: with infinitive alone, εὔ. θάνατον φυγεῖν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.401 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τί δοκέεις εὔχεσθαι ἄλλο ἢ.. λαβεῖ; [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.27; οἶκον ἰδεῖν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.293, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῖς θεοῖς with accusative et infinitive, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 117c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also εὔ. τοὺς θεοὺς δοῦναί μοι pray that the gods may give, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 351, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.1.26; πρὸς τοὺς θεοὺς διδόναι [prev. author] “Mem.” 1.3.2; ταῖς Μούσαις εἰπεῖν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 545d, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; later εὔ. ἵνα[[ Aristeas 45, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 9.53, 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 2.6.12; ὅπως “Wien.Stud.” 44.159. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]