πέτομαι,
2nd pers. singular πέτεαι [[ 6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 9: ] Refs 6th c.BC+]imperfect ἐπετόμην, Epic dialect πετ- [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.366, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: future πετήσομαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 77, compare 1126 (ἀπο-)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; shortened πτήσομαι (ἐκ-) [[ [prev. author] “V.” 208, and always in early Prose, (ἀνα-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 905a, +others, 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.209, (ἐπι-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.15 (mostly in compounds, but πτήσεσθαι in later Prose, 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 2.27): ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist ἐπτόμην, infinitive πτέσθαι [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; elsewhere in compounds, (ἐπι-) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.126, (ἀν-) 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator “fragment” 58, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; frequently also ἐπτάμην, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.592, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 18, (παρ-) 7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 13, (ἐς-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.100 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular πτάτο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.880, ] Refs 8th c.BC+]infinitive πτάσθαι (δια-) [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], participle πτάμενος [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.282, 22.362, etc. (in codices of 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus forms of ἐπτόμην] Refs 8th c.BC+] in compounds predominate over those from ἐπτάμη; δι-έπτατο is found in codices of [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1086, ἐκ-πτόμενος] Refs 5th c.BC+] followed by κατ-έπτατο [[ [prev. author] “Av.” 788 {πετόντεσσι} ] Refs]; ἀν-επτάμαν is probably in [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 693 (Lyric poetry), προσ-έπτατο [prev. work] 382)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; subjunctive πτῆται for πτᾶται, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.170: also ] Refs 8th c.BC+]aorist of active form ἔπτην, ἔπτης, [[ “IG” 14.2550, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Trag.” 218, ἔπτη Batrachomyomachia 208, 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 2.223, +others, “Anacreontea” 22.3; _optative_ πταίης “Anthologia Graeca” 5.151 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus)] Refs 1st c.BC+]; participle πτᾶσα [[ “hymnus ad Cererem” 398, Hdn.Gr. 1.532 ] Refs]; elsewhere only in compounds, (δι-) [[ “IG” 3.1386, (ἐξ-) 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 98, (ἀν-) 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1307, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 440, (προς-) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 115, (ὑπερ-) 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 113 (Trag. only in Lyric poetry): ] Refs 8th c.BC+]perfect πέπτηκα only as a coinage in [[ 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 2.79, elsewhere πεπότημαι (see. ποτάομαι)] Refs 4th c.AD+]: aorist passive ἐπετάσθην [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 624b6 (εἰς-), LXX.Psa.17(18).10, LXX.Hos.9.11 (ἐξ-), 1st-2nd c.AD: Sotion Paradoxographus p.186 W., 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 4.77 (ἐξ-)] LXX+4th c.BC+]: future passive πετασθήσομαι [[ LXX.Hab.1.8.] LXX]—The only present in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and _Attic dialect_ Prose is πέτομαι] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πέταμαι is used by [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 10.8, 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 30, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 8.90, “N.” 6.48, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 90 (_anapaest meter_), “Anthologia Graeca” 11.208 (1st c.AD: Lucillius Epigrammaticus)] Refs 7th c.BC+], and in later Prose, as [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Incessu Animalium” 709b10, “HA” 609a14 (περι-), cf. Moer. p.311 ] Refs 4th c.BC+] P.; noted as archaic by [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pseudol.” 29 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: aorist imperative πέτασσαι [[ “Anacreontea” 14.2 ] Refs]; ἵπταμαι (which see) is first found in late writers, [[ 2nd c.BC: Moschus Bucolicus 3.43, 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 65.4, etc.] Refs 2nd c.BC+] (mostly in compounds, compare ἐξίπταμα; ἀφίπτατο in [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1608 is spurious)] Refs 5th c.BC+], and is censured by [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Lex.” 25, “Sol.” 7 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—fly, of birds, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.207, 13.62, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.147, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of bees, gnats, etc., [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.89, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.95 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a departing spirit, ψυχὴ ἐκ ῥεθέων πταμένη Ἄϊδόσδε βεβήκει [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.362; ἐκ μελέων θυμὸς πτάτο 23.880 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: metaphorically, of young children, οὐδέπω μακρὰν πτέσθαι σθενοντες [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of arrows, javelins, etc., [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.99, etc.; ὀλοοίτροχος.. ἀναθρῴσκων π. 13.140 (but ἐκ χειρῶν ἔπτατ᾽ ἐρετμά, τεύχεα] Refs 8th c.BC+] fell suddenly.., [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.203, 24.534) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of any quick motion, dart, rush, of men, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.755, 22.143, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of horses, μάστιξεν δ᾽ ἐλάαν, τὼ δ᾽ οὐκ ἀέκοντε πετέσθην [[ 5.366, compare 768 ] Refs], etc.; of chariots, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 308 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of dancers, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 71 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πέτον fly! i.e. make haste! [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 321 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔχρην πετομένας ἥκειν πάλαι[[ [prev. work] 55; πολλοὶ ἥξουσι πετόμενοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 567d, compare 467d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πέτονται.. ἐπὶ ταῦτ᾽ ἄκλητοι, of parasites, [[ 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 229. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]