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κάμνω,
future κᾰμοῦμαι, καμῇ, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 881, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1215 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καμεῖται [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.389, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 921e ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect infinitive -έεσθαι[[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.580: ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]aorist 2 ἔκᾰμον, Epic dialect κάμον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.187, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; infinitive καμεῖν, Epic dialect subjunctive reduplicate κεκάμω, κεκάμῃσι, κεκάμωσιν, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.168, 17.658, 7.5 (but 3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristarchus Grammaticus read κε κάμω, etc., probably rightly)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect κέκμηκα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.262, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἐκεκμήκεσαν [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.98 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect participle κεκμηώς, κεκμηῶτι, κεκμηῶτα, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.232, 6.261, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.31; κεκμηότας 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.802 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κεκμηῶτας is variant for{κεκμηκότας} in [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.59 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:— middle, aorist 2 ἐκᾰμόμην [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.130 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], Epic dialect καμ- [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.341. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__I transitive, work, μίτρη, τὴν Χαλκῆες κάμον ἄνδρες wrought it, [[ 4.187, 216 ] Refs]; ἐπεὶ πάνθ᾽ ὅπλα κάμε [[ 18.614; σκῆπτρον.., τὸ μὲν Ἥφαιστος κάμε τεύχων 2.101, compare 8.195; κ. νῆας 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.126; πέπλον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.338, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.105; ἵππον 11.523; λέχος 23.189 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἄστυ build, [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.1322 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: also in aorist middle, ἱρόν [[ [prev. author] 2.718. ] Refs]
__I.2 aorist middle, win by toil, τὰς (i.e. γυναῖκας) αὐτοὶ καμόμεσθα βίηφί τε δουρί τε μακρῷ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.341. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__I.3 aorist middle, labour, till, οἵ κέ σφιν καὶ νῆσον.. ἐκάμοντο [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.130; οἴκους 4th-3rd c.BC: Philetas 8. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II intransitive, toil, labour, τινι for one, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.65; ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.41 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: then, from the effect of continued work, to be weary, ἀνδρὶ δὲ κεκμηῶτι μένος μέγα οἶνος ἀέξει [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.261, compare 11.802: with _accusative_ of the part, οὐδέ τι γυῖα.. κάμνει] Refs 8th c.BC+] nor is he weary in limb, [[ 19.170 ] Refs], etc.; περὶ δ᾽ ἔγχεϊ Χεῖρα καμεῖται [[ 2.389; ὁ δ᾽ ἀριστερὸν ὦμον ἔκαμνεν 16.106: frequently with ] Refs]participle, κ. πολεμίζων, ἐλαύνοντες, ἐρεθίζων, is weary of fighting, rowing, etc., [[ 1.168, 7.5, 17.658 ] Refs], etc.; οὐ μέν θην κάμετον.. ὀλλῦσαι Τρῶας [[ 8.448; ἔκαμον δέ μοι ὄσσε πάντῃ παπταίνοντι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.232 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; but οὐδέ τι τόξον δὴν ἔκαμον τανύων I did not long strain over stringing the bow, i.e. did it without effort,[[ 21.426, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.22: later frequently with _negative_, οὔτοι καμοῦμαι.. λέγουσα] Refs 8th c.BC+] I shall never be tired of saying, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 881; μὴ κάμῃς λέγων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1143; οὐκ ἂν κάμοιμι τὰς κακὰς κτείνων [prev. author] “Or.” 1590; οὔποτε κάμοιμ᾽ ἂν ὀρχουμένη 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 541 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. εὐεργετῶν, ἐπαινῶν, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 470c, “Lg.” 921e: with _dative_, κ. δαπάναις] Refs 5th c.BC+] to grow tired in spending, spare expense, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.90. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 to be hard-pressed, worsted, in battle or contest, [[[prev. work] 1.78, 80 ] Refs]; τὸ κάμνον στρατοῦ [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 709. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3 to be sick or suffering, τί πάσχει; τί κάμνει; [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 708 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ κάμνοντες the sick, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.197, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 282, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.64, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 407c, NT.Jam.5.15, etc.] NT+5th c.BC+]; of a doctor's patients, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ διαίτης ὀξέων” 1, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.243, “SIG” 943.10 (from Cos)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; καμοῦσα ἀπέθανε having fallen sick, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.120: with _accusative_ _cognate_, κάμνειν νόσον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 990, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 408e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; [τὴν ποδάγραν] variant in [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 604a23; τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.111 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ σώματα to be ill or distempered in body, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 478a; ὠσίν τε κὤμμασιν 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 3.32; πάθᾳ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.48; νοσήμασι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 603a30; ἀπὸ τοῦ τραύματος 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Tox.” 60; ὑπὸ νόσου 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 3.14.2. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.4 generally, to be distressed, meet with disaster, στρατοῦ καμόντος [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 670; τῷ πεποιημένῳ κ. μεγάλως 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.118, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 482 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1138, “HF” 293 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ καμῇ τοὐμὸν μέρος wilt not have to complain.., [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1215; κ. ἔν τινι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 306, “IA” 966 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a ship, νεὼς καμούσης ποντίῳ πρὸς κύματι [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 210: with _accusative_ _cognate_, οὐκ ἴσον καμὼν ἐμοὶ λύπης] Refs 4th c.BC+] not having borne an equal share of grief, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 532. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.5 in aorist participle, of the dead, i. e. either outworn, or those whose work is done, or those who have met with disaster, οἳ ὑπένερθε καμόντας ἀνθρώπους τίνυσθον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.278, compare 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 17.49; βροτῶν εἴδωλα καμόντων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.476 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἴδωλα κ[[. 24.14, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.72, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 231, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: also in perfect participle in Trag. and Prose, κεκμηκότες [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 284, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 756, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.59, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 718a, 927b, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1101a35 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἱερὰ τῶν κ. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 96 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also in the finite Verb, ὅπη ἄνθρωπος ἔκαμε [[ “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.158 (from Cyrene)] Refs].--The perfect is always intransitive (Cf. Sanskrit śamnīte 'work hard', 'serve zealously', śamitár- 'sacrificing priest', Gr. εἰρο-κόμος, κομέω, κομίζω.)
