ζητ-έω,
Doric dialect participle ζάτεισα [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 1.85: ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]imperfect ἐζήτουν, Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular ζήτει [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.258 (nowhere else in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist 1 ἐζήτησα [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 16.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect ἐζήτηκα [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Dinarchus Orator 2.19:] Refs 4th c.BC+] —middle, aorist 1 ἐζητησάμην (ἀν-) [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Longus Scriptor Eroticus “Prooem.” 2] Refs 3rd c.AD+]:—passive, future ζητηθήσομαι [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “Πυρρώνειοι ὑποτυπώσεις” 1.60, “M.” 8.16 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; but ζητήσομαι in passive sense,[[ [prev. work] 1.28, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 1.649] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—seek, seek for, ἐμὲ δ᾽ ἔξοχα πάντων ζήτει Il.[same place]; ζ. πημάτων ἀπαλλαγάς [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 318, compare 264; εὑρήσεις ζητῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 105 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μὴ ζητῶν without seeking, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 8.1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ ζητούμενον ἁλωτόν what is sought for may be found, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 110. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 mquire for, τὰ πινάκια καὶ τὰ γραμματεῖα [[ “IG” 12.91.11; τοὺς ἄρχοντας 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.3.2: with _relative_ clause, ὅτου δέοιτο ὁ Κῦρος [prev. author] “Cyr.” 8.5.13. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__3 search after, search out, τὸν αὐτόχειρα [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 266; μεγάλοις μηνύτροις ἐζητοῦντο οἱ δράσαντες 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.27 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of huntsmen, ζ. τὸν λαγώ [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 6.25. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]