κλαίω,
old Attic dialect κλάω (see. below) [ᾱ] never contracted; Aeolic dialect κλαΐω [[ “Lyrica Adespota” 65] Refs]; Epic dialect 2nd pers. singular optative κλαίοισθα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.619: _Attic dialect_ ] Refs 8th c.BC+]imperfect ἔκλᾱον, Epic dialect κλαῖον [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.201 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], Ionic dialect κλαίεσκον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.364, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.119, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 312: ] Refs 8th c.BC+]future κλαύσομαι, 2nd pers. singular κλαύσῃ or κλαύσει, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.340, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1327 (Lyric poetry), “Nu.” 58, 933 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 554, etc., rarely κλαυσοῦμαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1081, 1277 (in mock heroic verses)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Attic dialect also κλαιήσω [[ 4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “Dem.fragment” 10, κλᾱήσω 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.310, 21.99, later κλαύσω 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 23.34, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.70, NT.John.16.20, 4th c.AD(?): Manetho Astrologus 3.143: ] NT+4th c.BC+]aorist ἔκλαυσα, Epic dialect κλαῦσα [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.261 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—middle, aorist ἐκλαυσάμην [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 153, “Anthologia Graeca” 7.412 (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus Mess.)] Refs 7th c.BC+]:—passive, future κλαυσθήσομαι [[ LXX.Psa.77(78).64, κεκλαύσομαι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1436 ] LXX+5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐκλαύσθην [[ 3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 831, 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 8.11.1 (variant{κλαυθείς}), “IG” 14.2128] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: perfect κέκλαυμαι [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 687, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1490, κέκλαυσμαι 3rd c.BC: Lycophron Tragicus 273, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.115b. [κλάω [ᾱ]] Refs 5th c.BC+] is recognized as Attic dialect by [[ 2nd c.AD: Apollonius Dyscolus Grammaticus “de Adverbiis;” 187.26 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+], and is found in codices of [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 341, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 792a, “Phlb.” 48a: ἔκλᾰε in later poetry, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 14.32, uncertain in 4th-3rd c.BC: Hermesianax Elegiacus 7.33 (compare κλέω A).] (κλᾰϝ-ψω, compare κλαυ-θμός, etc.) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]