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πυνθάνομαι,
[[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.315, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; poetry also πεύθομαι (which see): Epic dialect imperfect πυνθανόμην [[ 13.256 ] Refs]: future πεύσομαι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.19, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+], Doric dialect πευσοῦμαι [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 3.51 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+] (so codex middle in [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 988)] Refs 4th c.BC+]: aorist ἐπῠθόμην [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5. 702 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], etc., Epic dialect and Lyric poetry πυθόμην [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.732, 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 15.26 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; imperative πυθοῦ, Ionic dialect πυθεῦ [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.68 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect optative πεπύθοιτο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.50, +others (_subjunctive_ πεπύθωνται is _falsa lectio_ for{γε πύθωνται}, 7.195)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. plural πυθοίατο [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 921 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect πέπυσμαι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.505, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; 2nd pers. singular πέπῠσαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 310b ] Refs 5th c.BC+], Epic dialect πέπυσσαι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.494 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; infinitive πεπύσθαι [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.67, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; participle πεπυσμένος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 179e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: pluperfect ἐπεπύσμην [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 615, “Av.” 470 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. singular ἐπέπυστο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.674, _Epic dialect_ πέπυστο [prev. work] 521 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. dual πεπύσθην [[ 17.377 ] Refs]:—learn, whether by hearsay or by inquiry (ἐξιστορήσαντες τὰ ἐβούλοντο πυθέσθαι [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.195): _construction_ ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__1 π. τί τινος learn something from a person, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.408, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.537, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 599, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1417, etc.; also π. τι ἀπό τινος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 737; ἐξ ἄλλων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1266; ἐκ τοῦ παρατυχόντος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.22 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; frequently παρά τινος, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.91, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παρ᾽ ἄλλων (variant{ἄλλων}) [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.1.3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 with accusative of things only, hear or learn a thing, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.411, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 765, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.25, etc.: _absolutely_, αἰσχρὸν τόδε γ᾽ ἐστὶ καὶ ἐσσομένοισι πυθέσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.119, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 7.7, etc.; ὡς ἐγὼ πυνθάνομαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.22, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3 with genitive objecti, hear or inquire concerning, πυθέσθαι πατρός, ἀγγελιάων, μάχης, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.281, 2.256, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.224, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 35, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 635b. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__4 π. τινά τινος inquire about one person of or from another, τὸν ἄνδρα τῶν ὁδοιπόρων [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 204; so π. περί τινος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.75; πᾶσαν πυθέσθαι τῶνδ᾽ ἀλήθειαν πέρι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 91 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with accusative person only, inquire about a person, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 619. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__5 with participle, πυθόμην ὁδὸν ὁρμαίνοντα that he was starting, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.732, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.58, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 692; π. τὸ Πλημμύριον ἑαλωκός 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.31, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.7.16, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὔ πω.. πεπύσθην Πατρόκλοιο θανόντος they had not yet heard of his being dead, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.377, compare 427, 19.322, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 763; ὡς ἐπύθοντο τῆς Πύλου κατειλημμένης 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.6: with _accusative_ _of things_ added, εἰ σφῶϊν τάδε πάντα πυθοίατο μαρναμένοιιν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.257. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__6 with accusative et infinitive, hear or learn that.. , [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.62, 5.15, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 103 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.25, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__7 followed by an interrogative clause, ὡς πυθώμεθα ὅπου ποτ᾽ ἐσμέν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 11 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αὐτοῦ π. τί ποτε νοεῖ inquire or learn from him what.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Laches” 196c, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.3.25, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.107.6; π., ὅτεῳ.. συνοικέει 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.68 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. εἰ.. inquire whether.., [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 993, “IG” 42(1).121.18 (Epid., 4th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῦ ξένου ἡδέως ἂν π., τί ταῦθ᾽ ἡγοῦντο [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Sophista” 216d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. τινῶν, ὅτι.. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.6.17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; π., ὅπως ἂν κάλλιστα πορευθείη[[ [prev. work] 3.1.7, compare “Cyr.” 1.4.7. ] Refs]
__II active, aorist 1 participle feminine πεύσασα having learned, [[ PMasp. 5.7 (6th c.AD). ] Refs 6th c.AD+]
