θιγγάνω,
future προσ-θίξῃ probably to be read instead of -εις[[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 652: 2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] future τεθίξομαι [[ [prev. author] “Hipp.” 1086 ] Refs]: aorist 2 ἔθῐγον [[ 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 71, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 304, etc.] Refs 7th c.BC+]; Laconian dialect infinitive σιγῆν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1004 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, aorist θιχθῆναι [[ 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 9.258 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—touch, handle: absolutely, μὴ θίγγανε [[ “IG” 12(3).451 (from Thera), etc.: usually with _genitive_, οἴακος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 663, etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; χερσὶ or χερὶ θ. τινός, [[ [prev. author] “Th.” 44, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 1318; δι᾽ ὁσίων χειρῶν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 470: with _accusative_, χεῖρα (assuming variant) Νεοβούλης θιγεῖν 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus [same place] ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; χερσὶ γλαυκᾶς ἐλαίας θιγοῦ[σ᾽ ὄζον] [[ 2nd c.BC: Limenius Lyricus 6 (uncertain reading)] Refs 2nd c.BC+]:—passive, to be touched, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 495a6. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 take hold of, τινος [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1410 (_anapaest meter_), etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θ. ὠλέναισιν τέκνου embrace, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 300 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θ. γυναικός have intercourse with.. , [[ [prev. author] “Hipp.” 1044 ] Refs]; θ. εὐνῆς[[ [prev. work] 885, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 329: _absolutely_, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 51 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; γλίχεται θιγεῖν καὶ συνεῖναι, of man's aspiration after God, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “D.” 3.1. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]