σπουδή, ἡ,
(σπεύδω) haste, speed, σπουδὴν ἔχειν make haste, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.89 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ἔσται τῆς ὁδοῦ haste on the journey, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.77; ὅκως ἂν αὐτὸν ὁρῶσι σπουδῆς ἔχοντα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.66 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χωρίον.., οἷ σπουδὴν ἔχω whither I am hastening, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 288; τοῖς μήτε σχολὴν μήτε σπουδὴν διαγινώσκουσιν 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Characteres” 3.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σπουδῇ in haste, see infr. IV; σὺν σπουδῇ ταχύς [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1223 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σὺν πάσῃ σ. with all dispatch, [[ POxy. 63.5 (2nd-3rd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; διὰ σπουδῆς [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 212, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.2.28, etc.; ἐκ σπουδῆς 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Mirabilia” 837a15 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μετὰ σ. [[ NT.Mark.6.25, compare 2nd c.AD: Herodianus Grammaticus 6.4.3, etc.; κατὰ σπουδήν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.93, 2.90, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.6.28, etc. (but this sense frequently runs into the next). ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__II zeal, pains, trouble, effort, ἄτερ σπουδῆς [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 21.409 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; σῆς ὑπὸ σ. [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 585; σπουδῆς οὐκ ἀξία 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 778, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 604c, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; frequently in dative σπουδῇ, zealously, see below[[ IV. 3; so σὺν σπουδῇ [prev. author] “Lg.” 818c ] Refs]; σὺν πολλῇ σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.8.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐπὶ μεγάλης σ. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 192c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μετὰ πολλῆς σ. [[ [prev. author] “Chrm.” 175e ] Refs]; σπουδὴν ποιεῖσθαι exert oneself, take pains, be eager, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.30 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; with infinitive, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.4, 7.205; σ. πολλὴν ποιέεσθαι [prev. author] 6.107; πᾶσαν σ. ποιήσασθαι ὅπως.. “PHib.” 1.71.9 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ποιεῖσθαι περί τινος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 177c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; περί τινα[[ [prev. work] 179d; ἐπί τινι 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Salt.” 1: with _genitive_, σπουδήν τινος ποιήσασθαι] Refs 2nd c.AD+] make much ado about.. , [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σπουδαὶ λόγων κατατεινομένων zeal for the conflicting arguments, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 130 (_anapaest meter_); πρός τι 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 17.114; ἀμφὶ Κυράνας θέμεν σ. ἅπασαν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.276; ὅτου χάριν σ. ἔθου τήνδ᾽ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 13 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. ἔχειν, with infinitive, to be eager, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.120 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; with accusative et infinitive, [[ [prev. author] 7.149; σ. ἔχειν τινός 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 778, 1014; περί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Amatores” 136c; εἴς τι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 557; ὅπως τι γένηται 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 22; σ. γίγνεται περί τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 276e; σ. ἐστι περὶ πραγμάτων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 8.2; σπουδῆς καὶ βουλῆς τὰ πράγματα προσδεῖσθαι [prev. author] 9.46 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ σ. τῆς ἀπίξιος my zeal in coming, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.49, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 257 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὅπλων σπουδῇ with great attention to the arms, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.31, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 855d: _plural_, ἐπιμέλειαι καὶ σ. πλήθους γεννημάτων] Refs 5th c.BC+] eagerness for.. , [[[prev. work] 740d ] Refs]; zealous exertions, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1061 (Lyric poetry), 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Rhetorica” 1370a12. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]