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πίπτω,
Aeolic dialect πίσσω, accusative to Grammars in Hilgard Exc. ex libris Herodiani p.28 (cf. Hdn.Gr.2.377 note); poetry subjunctive πίπτῃσι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 153.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: Epic dialect imperfect πῖπτον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.67, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+] (for the quantity of ι[[compare 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus Gr. 2.10)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; Ionic dialect πίπτεσκον (συμ-) [[ 5th c.BC: Empedocles Poeta Philosophus 59.2 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future πεσοῦμαι [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 971 (Lyric poetry), etc.] Refs 4th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect3rd.pers. plural πεσέονται [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.824 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], 3rd.pers. singular πεσέεται [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.163, 168: ] Refs 5th c.BC+]aorist ἔπεσον, infinitive πεσεῖν, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.178, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; 2nd pers. singular optative πεσοίης [[ 1st-2nd c.AD: Polemo Sophista “Callimachus” 10.14 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]; Aeolic dialect and Doric dialect ἔπετον [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 60, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.69, “P.” 5.50, (κάπετον) “O.” 8.38, (ἐμ-) “P.” 8.81, compare 3rd c.BC: Isyllus Lyricus 8, “IG” 14.642 (from Thurii)] Refs 7th c.BC+]; in later writers ἔπεσα, [[ 5th-6th c.AD: Orphica “Argonautica” 521, LXX.Lev.9.24, +others, _falsa lectio_ in 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 291 ] LXX+5th c.BC+] (προς-): perfect πέπτωκα [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 147, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 970, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect participle πεπτεώς, εῶτος (the εω forming one syllable by synizesis), [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.503, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also πεπτηώς, ηυῖα, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.354, 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 183.7, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.69, 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.1298, “Anthologia Graeca” 7.427 (Antip. Sid.), compare πτήσσω] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Trag. participle πεπτώς [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 828, “Ant.” 697 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]. (Redupl. from πετ-, which appears in Aeolic dialect and Doric dialect aorist ἔ-πετ-ον (see. above), and the poetry form πίτ-ν; cognate with πέτομαι, which see)
Close Browse lexicon entries __A Radical sense, fall down, and (when intentional) cast oneself down, πρηνέα πεσεῖν, ὕπτιος πέσεν, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.307, 15.435, etc.; νιφάδες.. π. θαμειαί 12.278; ὀπίσω πέσεν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.410; etc.:—Constr., with Preps., in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus almost always ἐν.., ἐν κονίῃσι π] Refs 8th c.BC+]. fall in the dust, i.e. to rise no more, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.425, compare 13.205; ἐν αἵματι καὶ κονίῃσι πεπτεῶτας 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.384 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. ἐν ἀγκοίνῃσί τινος fall into his arms, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 142.5 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν χθονὶ πεπτηώς Simon. [prev. cited] (compare πτήσσω) π. ἐν δεμνίοις [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 35, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 125 (Lyric poetry) (see. below 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 1): rare in Prose, π. ἐν ποταμῷ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 1.32: with _dative_ only, πεδίῳ πέσε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.82 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; δεμνίοις π. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 88 (assuming variant); π. ἐπὶ χθονί 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.535; οὐδέ οἱ ὕπνος πῖπτεν ἐπὶ βλεφάροις 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 188.4; ἐπὶ γᾷ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 134 (Lyric poetry); πρὸς πέδῳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 605; πρὸς ἀγκάλαις [prev. author] “Ion” 962; ἀμφὶ σώμασίν τινων 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 326 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: with a preposition of motion first in [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus, Πληϊάδες π. ἐς πόντον “Op.” 620; [ποταμὸς] εἰς ἅλα “Th.” 791; εἰς ἄντλον 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1025 (Lyric poetry); ἐπὶ γᾶν π. αἷμα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1019 (Lyric poetry); ἐπὶ στόμα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Cynegeticus” 10.13; πρὸς οὖδας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 405. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__2 in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus with Advs. of motion as well as of rest, χαμάδις π. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.16, 15.714, etc.; χαμαὶ π. 4.482, compare 14.418, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. ἔραζε [[ 12.156, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.280. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3 with Preps. denoting the point from which one falls, ἀπ᾽ ὤμων χαμαὶ πέσε [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.803; ἀπ᾽ οὐρανοῦ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Fragmenta - American Journal of Philology” 44.3; ἀπό τινος ὄνου 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 701d; ἐκ χειρῶν π. ἡνία 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.583; π. ἐκ νηός 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.417; πεσὼν ἐκ νηὸς ἀποφθίμην ἐνὶ πόντῳ 10.51. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__4 Geometry texts, of perpendiculars or parts of applied figures, π. ἐπί τι fall upon, [[ 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra 3.11, 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ τῶν ὀχουμένων” 2.8, +others, 3rd-2nd c.BC: Apollonius Pergaeus Geometra “Conica” 1.2 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; but π. ἐπί τι, ποτί τι, intersect, meet, [[ 3rd c.BC: Archimedes Geometra “περὶ κωνοειδέων καὶ σφαιροειδέων” 16, “Spir.” 15 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; π. διά τινος pass through, [[ [prev. author] “Con.Sph.” 17; π. κατά τινος [prev. author] “Sph.Cyl.” 1 “Def.” 2; ἐπί τι κατά τινα 3rd-2nd c.BC: Apollonius Pergaeus Geometra “Conica” 1.2. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__B.I πίπτειν ἔν τισι fall violently upon, attack, ἐνὶ νήεσσι πέσωμεν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.742 (but ἐν νήεσσι πεσόντες] Refs 8th c.BC+] tumbling into the ships, [[ 2.175)] Refs]; ἐν βουσὶ π. [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 375 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ἔρως, ὃς ἐν κτήμασι π. [[ [prev. author] “Ant.” 782 (Lyric poetry)] Refs]; ἐπ᾽ ἀλλήλοισι, of combatants, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 379, compare 375; πρὸς μῆλα καὶ ποίμνας 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1061; πρὸς πύλαις 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 462. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.I.2 throw oneself down, fall down, πρὸς βρέτη θεῶν[[ [prev. work] 185; ἀμφὶ σὸν γόνυ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 787 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐς γόνατα on one's knees, of a wrestler, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 156; ἐς τὸν ὦμον 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 571. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II fall in battle, πῖπτε δὲ λαός [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.67, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οἱ πεπτωκότες the fallen, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.4.24; νέκυες πίπτοντες 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.200; νεκροὶ περὶ νεκροῖς πεπτωκότες 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 881; πεσήματα.. πέπτωκε δοριπετῆ νεκρῶν [prev. author] “Andr.” 653; π. ὑπὸ Ἀθηναίων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.67; ὡς.. θάμνοι πρόρριζοι πίπτουσι.., ὣς ἄρ᾽ ὑπ᾽ Ἀτρεΐδῃ πῖπτε κάρηνα Τρώων 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.157, compare 500, etc.; τὸ Περσῶν ἄνθος οἴχεται πεσόν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 252. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.II.2 fall, be ruined, δόμον δοκοῦντα κάρτα νῦν πεπτωκέναι [[ [prev. author] “Ch.” 263, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 22 e; πεσεῖν.. πτώματ᾽ οὐκ ἀνασχετά 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 919, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 181b; στάντες τ᾽ ἐς ὀρθὸν καὶ πεσόντες ὕστερον 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 50 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀβουλίᾳ, ἐξ ἀβουλίας π., [[ [prev. author] “El.” 429, 398; ἀπὸ σμικροῦ κακοῦ [prev. author] “Aj.” 1078 ] Refs]; of an army, μεγάλα πεσόντα πρήγματα ὑπὸ ἡσσόνων [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.18, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.89; ὁ Ξέρξεω στρατὸς αὐτὸς ὑπ᾽ ἑωυτοῦ ἔπιπτε 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.16 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a city, π. δορί [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 5. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II.3 fall, sink, ἄνεμος πέσε the wind fell, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.202 (but in 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 547, Βορέαο πεσόντος is used for ἐμπεσόντος] Refs 8th c.BC+], falling on, blowing on one): metaph, πέπτωκεν κομπάσματα [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 794, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 474: with _dative_, ταῖς ἐλπίσι πεσεῖν] Refs 5th c.BC+] fail in one's hopes, [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.87.1. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__B.II.4 fall short, fail, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 100e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a playwright, fail, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 540. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.III πίπτειν ἔκ τινος fall out of, lose a thing, unintentionally, σοι ἐκ θυμοῦ πεσέειν fall out of, lose thy favour, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.595 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐξ ἐλπίδων π. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 420.5; τοὔμπαλιν π. φρενῶν [prev. author] “Hipp.” 390 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also of set purpose, ἐξ ἀρκύων π. escape from.., [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 147; ἔξω τῶν κακῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 970. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.III.2 reversely, πολλὴν ἐς κακότητα π. [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 42; εἰς ἄτην 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 13.68; εἰς δουλοσύνην [prev. author] 9.4; ἐς δάκρυα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.21; ἐς νόσον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 478 ] Refs 6th c.BC+]; εἰς ἔρον, ἔριν, ὀργήν, φόβον, ἀνάγκας, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 1172, “fragment” 578.8, “Or.” 696, “Ph.” 69, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.82 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; also ἐν γυιοπέδαις π. [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 2.41; ἐν μέσοις ἀρκυστάτοις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1476; ἐν φόβῳ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 1418 (Lyric poetry); ἐν σολοικισμῷ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sol.” 3; πρὸς τόλμαν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ichn.” 11: with _dative_ only, π. δυσπραξίαις [prev. author] “Aj.” 759; αἰσχύνῃ [prev. author] “Tr.” 597, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐκ ἔχω ποῖ γνώμης πέσω I know not which way to turn, [[[prev. work] 705. ] Refs]
__B.III.3 εἰς ὕπνον π. fall asleep, [[ [prev. author] “Ph.” 826; but ἐν ὕπνῳ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 4(3).23 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; simply ὕπνῳ, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 68. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.III.4 π. εἰς (ἰατρικὴν) χρῆσιν to be applied to (medicinal) use, [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 5.19,151, +others ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
__B.III.5 π. ὑπ᾽ αἴσθησιν to be accessible to perception, [[ 4th c.AD: Iamblichus Philosophus “de communi mathematica scientia” 8, “in Nic.” p.7 P. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__B.IV πίπτειν μετὰ ποσσὶ γυναικός to fall between her feet, i.e. to be born, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.110. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.V of the dice, τὰ δεσποτῶν εὖ πεσόντα θήσομαι I shall count my master's lucky throws my own, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 32; ἀεὶ γὰρ εὖ πίπτουσιν οἱ Διὸς κύβοι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 895; ὥσπερ οἱ κύβοι· οὐ ταὔτ᾽ ἀεὶ πίπτουσιν 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 34 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὥσπερ ἐν πτώσει κύβων πρὸς τὰ πεπτωκότα τίθεσθαι τὰ πράγματα according to the throws, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 604c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὄνασθαι πρὸς τὰ νῦν π. [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 718 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πρὸς τὸ πῖπτον as matters fall out, [[ [prev. author] “El.” 639 ] Refs]; of tossing up with oystershells, κἂν μὲν πίπτῃσι τὰ λεύκ᾽ ἐπάνω [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 153.5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of lots, ὁ κλῆρος π. τινί or παρά τινα, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 619e, 617e; ἐπί τινα NT.Act.1.26: Astrology texts, π. καλῶς ὁ οἰκοδεσπότης Vett. Val. 7.15. ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__B.V.2 generally, fall, turn out, εὖ πίπτειν to be lucky, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 603 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παρὰ γνώμαν π. [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 12.10 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a battle, καραδοκήσοντα τὴν μάχην τῇ πεσέεται to wait and see how it would fall, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.163, compare 8.130 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; λόγων κορυφαὶ ἐν ἀλαθείᾳ π. turn out true, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.69; συμφοραὶ παντοῖαι πίπτουσαι παντοίως 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 709a. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.V.3 fall to one, i.e. to his lot, especially of revenues, accrue, τῷ δήμῳ πρόσοδος ἔπιπτε [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 30.31.7; φησιν.. ἑξακισχίλια τάλαντα τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις πεσεῖν [prev. author] 2.62.1 ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]; τὴν πεπτωκότα (sic) μοι οἰκίαν [[ “BGU” 251.12 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; τὰ πίπτοντα διάφορα ἐκ τῶν μυστηρίων [[ “IG” 5(1).1390.45 (Andania, 1st c.BC)] Refs 1st c.BC+]; τὸ πεσὸν ἀπὸ τῆς τιμῆς ἀργύριον [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 20.17 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; to be paid, τῶν εἰς Καίσαρα πίπτειν ὀφειλόντων ἐξεταστής [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 17.1.12; τὰ πεπτωκότα εἰς τὸ.. ἱερόν “PEleph.” 10.2 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; π. ἐπὶ τράπεζαν [[ “PCair.Zen.” 236.7 (3rd c.BC), “PLond.” 3.1200.1 (2nd c.BC) ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; μὴ πιπτόντων τῶν τόκων [[ “BMus.Inscription” 1032.40 (from Teos) ] Refs]; πέπτωκεν ἁλικῆς διά τινος.. [[ “Ostr.Bodl.” i3 (3rd c.BC) (but τὰ ἀπὸ τῶν προσόδων πίπτοντα] Refs 3rd c.BC+] deficiencies, [[ “IPE” 12.32 B 75 (from Olbia)). ] Refs]
__B.VI fall, of a date or period of Time, π. κατὰ τὴν ρκθ᾽ Ὀλυμπιάδα [[ 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.5.1; οἱ χρόνοι οἱ πίπτοντες ὑπὸ τὴν ἡμετέραν ἱστορίαν [prev. author] 4.2.2. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__B.VII fall under, belong to a class, εἰς γένη ταῦτα [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Metaphysica” 1005a2, +others] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ τὴν αὐτὴν ἐπιστήμην[[ [prev. work] 982b8; ὑπὸ τὴν αὐτὴν μέθοδον [prev. author] “Top.” 102a37, compare 151a15; ὑπὸ τέχνην οὐδεμίαν [prev. author] “EN” 1104a8; ἔξω τῶν διῃρημένων γενῶν [prev. author] “PA” 681b1; τὸ μακάριον ἐνταῦθα πεπτωκέναι 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.28U.; ὅσα πέπτωκεν ὑπὸ τὴν.. ἱστορίαν 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 2.14.7. ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
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