καρτερ-έω,
to be steadfast, patient, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1274, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Σαμία” 112, etc.; ῥᾷον παραινεῖν ἢ παθόντα καρτερεῖν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 1078, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.64; κ. μάχῃ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 837; κ. ἐλπίδι τινός 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.44: frequently with a _preposition_, κ. πρός τι] Refs 5th c.BC+] to hold up against a thing, e.g. πρὸς ἡδονάς τε καὶ λύπας [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 556c; πρὸς λιμὸν καὶ ῥῖγος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.3.13; ἐπὶ τοῖς παροῦσι 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 6.48, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 194a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. ἐν ταῖς ἡδοναῖς to be patient or temperate in.., [[ [prev. author] “Lg.” 635c; ἐν πολέμῳ [prev. author] “La.” 193a ] Refs]; κ. ἀπὸ τοῦ ὕπνου refrain therefrom, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 13.13 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: with participle, persevere in doing, οἱ δ᾽ ἐκαρτέρουν πρὸς κῦμα λακτίζοντες [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1395; κ. ἀναλίσκων ἀργύριον φρονίμως 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 192e; ἀκούων 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.241; κ. ἐν ἐπιτηδεύμασιν 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 2.32 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also τὰ δείν᾽ ἐκαρτέρουν was strangely obdurate or obstinate, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 650 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: in later Prose meaning little more than wait, καρτέρει καὶ θεώρει wait and see, [[ LXX.2Mac.7.17; οὐ κ. μέχρι θαλάμων ἐλθεῖν 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.291. ] LXX+2nd c.AD+]
__II with accusative of things, bear patiently, endure, τὰ δ᾽ ἀδύναθ᾽ ἡμῖν καρτερεῖν οὐ ῥᾴδιον [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1370; κ. θεοῦ δόσιν [prev. author] Alcaeus1071; τῷ σώματι τὰ συντυγχάνοντα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.6.7; τὸν τῶν ὑπεροπτικῶν ὄγκον 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 1.30; πολλὴν κακοπάθειαν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1278b27:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, κεκαρτέρηται τἀμά my time for patience is over, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 1457.--In 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus, οὐ καρτεριάδδει· οὐ φρόνιμος εἶ, should probably be οὐ καρτερίδδει (_Laconian dialect_ for καρτερίζει). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]