__II middle, have profit or advantage, enjoy help or support, have enjoyment or delight, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.260, 7.173, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.415, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 517, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: with participle, have benefit from being or doing so and so, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 1380, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 30c, “R.” 380b, “Men.” 84c, etc.] Refs 6th c.BC+]: but most frequently with genitive, have advantage from.., have delight or enjoyment of.., δαιτὸς ὄνησο [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.68; λέκτρων -ήσομαι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1348 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πρὶν σφῷν ὄνασθαι[[ [prev. work] 1025, cf. Alcaeus335: frequently with _neuter_ ] Refs] adjective added, τί σευ ἄλλος ὀνήσετα; what good will others have of thee, i. e. what good will you have done them? [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.31; τοσόνδ᾽ ὀνήσῃ τῶν ἐμῶν.. πορθμῶν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 570, etc.; so ὄνασθαί τι ἀπό τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 528a; also ὀ. τοῦτο ὅτι.. 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 12.2: also with an ironical sense, ὄναιο μέντἄν, εἴ τις ἐκπλύνειέ σε] Refs 8th c.BC+] you'd be the better of it, if one were to wash you clean, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1062 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἁλσὶν διασμηχθεὶς ὄναιτ᾽ ἂν οὑτοσί he'd be very nice if he were rubbed down with salt, [[ [prev. author] “Nu.” 1237 ] Refs]; so ὠνάθην μεγάλως ὅτι.. lucky for me that.., [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.55; ὤνησο, διότι μὴ ὁ Ζεὺς ἐπήκουσέ σου 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Prom.” 20. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__II.2 aorist optative ὀναίμην, αιο, αιτο, in protestations, wishes, etc., ὄναιο mayst thou have profit, i. e. bless thee.., [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1677, etc.: and with _genitive_, ὄναιο τῶν φρενῶν] Refs 5th c.BC+] bless thee for.., [[ [prev. author] “IA” 1359; ὄναισθε μύθων [prev. author] “IT” 1078, compare “Hel.” 1418 ] Refs]; οὕτως ὀναίμην τῶν τέκνων so may I have profit of them, in a parenthesis, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 469; οὕτως ὄναισθε τούτων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 28.20; ὄναιντο βίου 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 128 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μή νυν ὀναίμην, ἀλλ᾽.. ὀλοίμην may I not see good, but die, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 644 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὄναιο τοῦ γενναίου χάριν bless thee for thy noble spirit, [[ [prev. author] “OC” 1042. ] Refs]
__II.3 aorist participle ὀνήμενος, of those to whom (or of whom) one says ὄναιο (ὄναιτο), blessed, ἐσθλός μοι δοκεῖ εἶναι, ὀνήμενος [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.33: for this sense of a ] Refs 8th c.BC+]participle compare ἐπίτριπτος, οὐλόμενος.
