μεθύω [ῠ],
(μέθυ), only present and imperfect: future and aorist active belong to μεθύσκω (μεθύσας is falsa lectio in [[ 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 28.211 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]; μεθύσαντας is falsa lectio for -τες in [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.239a), ] Refs 1st c.AD+]aorist being supplied by passive of μεθύσκω:— to be drunken with wine, νευστάζων κεφαλῇ, μεθύοντι ἐοικώς [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.240 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μεθύων, opposed to νήφων, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 478, 627, compare 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 4.12, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 128, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1048, “PHal.” 1.193 (3rd c.BC), etc.] Refs 7th c.BC+]; μ. ὑπὸ τοῦ οἴνου [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 2.26 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ μεθύειν drunkenness, [[ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 187.2, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 43; τὸ μ. πημονῆς λυτήριον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 758. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II metaphorically,
__II.1 of things, to be drenched, steeped in any liquid, with dative, e.g. βοείην.. μεθύουσαν ἀλοιφῇ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.390; μεθύων ἐλαίῳ λύχνος 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 114.1; [χείμαρρος] ὄμβροισι μ. “Anthologia Graeca” 9.277 (1st c.AD: Antiphilus Epigrammaticus). ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II.2 of persons, to be intoxicated with passion, pride, etc., ὑπὸ τῆς Ἀφροδίτης [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Symposium” 8.21; ὑπὸ τρυφῆς 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 121a; ἔρωτι 6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 19; τῷ μεγέθει τῶν πεπραγμένων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.49; περὶ τὰς ἡδονάς 2nd-3rd c.AD: Philostratus Sophista “Vitae Sophistarum” 1.22.1; οὐ μ. τὴν φρόνησιν 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 301; μ. τὸ φίλημα “Anthologia Graeca” 5.304. ] Refs 6th c.BC+]