__A.2 most frequently with a participle added, in which case we usually translate the participle by a Verb, and express λανθάνω by an adverb, unawares, without being observed; either,
__A.2.a with accusative person, ἄλλον τινὰ λήθω μαρνάμενος I am unseen by others while fighting, i.e. [[ 1 fight ] Refs]unseen by them, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.273; πάντας ἐλάνθανε δάκρυα λείβων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.93, compare 12.17, 220, 19.88, +others, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 1.64, 6.36, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.25: frequently in Trag. and _Attic dialect_, μὴ λάθῃ με προσπεσών] Refs 8th c.BC+] lest he come on unseen by me, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 46, compare 156 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅπως μὴ λήσουσιν αὐτοὺς αἱ νῆες.. ἀφορμηθεῖσαι should put to sea without their observing them, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; or,
__A.2.b without an accusative, φονέα ἐλάνθανε βόσκων he maintained the murderer unawares, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.44; λέληθας ἐχθρὸς ὤν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 415; δουλεύων λέληθας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 517; συνέβη δὲ ὑπερημέρῳ γενομένῳ λαθεῖν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.89 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: the reflexive pronoun may be supplied and is sometimes added, λέληθεν αὑτὸν τοῖς ξυνοῦσιν ὢν βαρύς [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 103; ἕως σαυτὸν λάθοις διαρραγείς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 32, compare “Nu.” 242, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.3.22: sometimes, however, a different object must be supplied from the context, βάλλοντες ἐλάνθανον (not ἑαυτούς, but Τρῶας) 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.721; ἐλάνθανε [πάντας] ἔχων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.5 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μὴ διαφθαρεὶς λάθῃ [τινὰ ὁ βίος] [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 506; μὴ λάθῃ [ἡμᾶς] φύγδα βάς 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 256 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.133, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+] —In a few examples this _construction_ is reversed, and λαθών is put in the participle, as in our idiom, ἀπὸ τείχεος ἆλτο λαθών (for ἔλαθεν ἁλόμενος) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.390; ἣ.. λήθουσά μ᾽ ἐξέπινες 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 532. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__A.3 rarely with accusative et infinitive, μή σε λαθέτω ὑπερτιθέμεν let it not escape thee to.., i.e. forget not to.., [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 5.23; ἔλαθεν αὐτὸν σύνθημα δοῦναι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aristides” 17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σφᾶς λέληθε Θεόδωρον εἶναι it has been unnoticed that it was.., [[ 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 9.41.1. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__A.4 followed by a relative clause, οὐδέ με λήθεις, ὅττι θεῶν τίς σ᾽ ἦγε thou escapest me not, it is not unknown to me, that some god led thee, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.563; οὐδέ ἑ λήθει, ὅππως.. 23.323 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐδόκεες θεοὺς λήσειν οἷα ἐμηχανῶ thou thought'st to escape the gods' notice in.., [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.106; οὔκουν με.. οἷα πράττεις λανθάνει 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 465 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ λανθάνεις με, ὅτι.. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 3.5.24, compare “Smp.” 3.6, 13 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὁ γείτων λ. τινὰ οὐ μόνον ὅτι πράττει, ἀλλ᾽ εἰ.. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 174b. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B causal, make one forget a thing, with genitive of things, in compounds ἐκληθάνω, ἐπι-λήθ; the simple Verb only in Epic dialect reduplicate aorist 2, ὄφρα.. λελάθῃ ὀδυνάων that.. he may cause him to forget his pains, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.60; πόλιν λελάθοιτε συντυχιᾶν “Lyrica Adespota” 140.9: but ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
