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σῴζω,
with ι wherever ζ follows ω, as σῴζω, [[ “Etymologicum Magnum” 741.27, and so (written σωιζ-) in Inscrr. and Papyri down to 3rd c.BC, e.g. “IG” 12.625.4, 22.687.35, 1611.378, 3rd c.BC: Isyllus Lyricus 75 (lapis), “PCair.Zen.” 482.17, 532.23 (3rd c.BC), “Test.Epict.” 1.6 (3rd-2nd c.BC), (ἀνα-) “IG” 22.492.13, also in codex Laur. of 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 993, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+], but otherwise without it, e.g. ἔσωσε [[ “IG” 9(2).257.11 (Thess., 5th c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; but Didym. (and many Hellenistic and later Inscrr. and Papyri) rejected the ι everywhere, see [[ “Etymologicum Magnum” [same place], and on the other hand Inscrr. show σῳσ- (always written σωισ-) from 5th c.BC, ἔσῳσεν “IG” 12.1085.5, 22.1236.6, συνδιασῴσαντες “GDI” 1612.9 (Dyme, 3rd c.BC), σῴσαι (_3rd.pers._ _sing._ _optative_) “IG” 5(2).357.152 (Stymphalus, 3rd c.BC), διέσῳσαν “OGI” 56.18 (Canopus, 3rd c.BC),compare “PPetr.” 3p.72 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σοζ[, i.e. σωζ[, occurs in [[ “IG” 12.590] Refs]: future σώσω [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1391, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.137, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; early Attic dialect σωῶ [[ “IG” 12.188.30: ] Refs]perfect σέσωκα, also σέσῳκα, see. {ἀνασῴζω}:— middle, future σώσομαι [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 793, (ἐκ-) 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 360, (δια-) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.28 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐσωσάμην [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 402 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, future σωθήσομαι [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.111, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 77, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “προγνωστικόν” 1, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐσώθην [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.110, +others, “SIG” 167.37 (Mylasa, 4th c.BC) (ἐσώσθην only in 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect σέσωσμαι [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Th.” [821 (820)], σέσωσται 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Taurica” 607, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 56.33, σεσώσμεθα 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 83, etc.; but σέσωται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Critias” 109d, compare 110a, σεσωμένος “PCair.Zen.” 331.8 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; said to be Attic dialect by [[ 9th c.AD: Photius Legal icographus, etc. ] Refs 9th c.AD+]; διασεσῳμένους is found in [[ “IG” 22.435.11 (after 4th c.BC) and διασεσῳμένοι in “PCair.Zen.” 240.11 (3rd c.BC)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; later σέσῳσται [[ “IG” 12(7).386.25 (Amorgos, 3rd c.BC)] Refs 3rd c.BC+].--The foll. forms are found in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus and dialects, ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
Close Browse lexicon entries __1 present participle σώζων [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.490 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. singular indicative or optative σώζει (-οι) [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 376 (variant for{εἴη}): ] Refs 8th c.BC+]present participle passive σωζόμενοι (-ομένοισι) [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 68, 235 (assuming variant). ] Refs 6th c.BC+]
__2 from σᾰόω, 3rd.pers. singular σαοῖ [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 868, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 22, etc.] Refs 6th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. plural σαοῦσι [[ 7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 11.13 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; 2nd pers. singular imperative σάου [[ “Hymni Homerici” 13.3, 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Epigrammata” 35 (as variant)] Refs 3rd c.BC+], etc.: future σαώσω [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.44 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist ἐσάωσα [[ 21.611, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 231 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist infinitive passive σαωθῆναι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.503, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.473; _imperative_ σαωθήτω 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.228 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. plural ἐσάωθεν [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.185 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: future middle σαώσομαι [[ 21.309. ] Refs]
__3 from σάωμι, Aeolic dialect 2nd pers. singular σάως [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 73 (perhaps σάῳς)] Refs 7th c.BC+]; 2nd pers. singular imperative σάω [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.230, 17.595, Callias Epigrammaticus [same place], etc.: σάω] Refs 8th c.BC+] as 3rd.pers. singular imperfect, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.363, 21.238. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__4 from σώω, participle σώοντες [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.430 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect imperfect σώεσκον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.363 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; σώετε, σώεσθαι, [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 4.197, 2.610. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__5 from σόω, subjunctive σόῃς, -ῃ, -ωσι, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.681, 424, 393 vulgar form, where Tyrannio cited in Hdn.Gr. 2.66 reads σοῷς, σοῷ, σοῶσ; in 9.681 3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristarchus Grammaticus read both σαῷς and σοῷς] Refs 8th c.BC+]; the forms σοῷς, σοῷ perhaps arise from σαόω, by contraction and 'distraction': but σόωσι from σώωσι accusative to Hdn.Gr.[same place]; [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus cites also σόεις, σοῦται as ={σώζεις, σώζεται}. ] Refs 5th c.AD+]
__6 Laconian dialect σωάδδει· παρατηρεῖ, [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus ] Refs 5th c.AD+]: but also σχολι-σοΐδδω, aorist ἀπέσοιξεν· ἀπέσωσεν, Λάκωνες, [[[prev. author] ] Refs]
__7 σωννύω, [[ 5th c.BC: Dinolochus Comicus 5 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—save, keep,
__1 of persons, save from death, keep alive, σώοντες ἑταίρους [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.430; ζωοὺς σάω 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.238; ὄτ᾽ ἄσφ᾽ ἀπολλυμένοις σάως 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus 73, compare 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.91, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.1.38; πόδες καὶ γοῦνα σ. τινά 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.611; νὺξ στρατὸν σ. 9.78 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; spare, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.357 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, to be saved, kept alive, preserved, opposed to ἀπολέσθαι, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.503, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.185, etc.; ἀγαπητῶς σεσωσμένους 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 16.16 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; keep a whole skin, escape destruction, οἱ σωθησόμενοι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 176d ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; so in present σωζόμενος, [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 68, 235 (assuming variant)] Refs 6th c.BC+]; to be healed, recover from sickness, [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Κωακαὶ προγνώσιες” 136, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 1.10 (uncertain reading); ὑγιαίνοντες καὶ σωζόμενοι “IG” 22.1028.89 (1st c.BC)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σώζεο, as a wish, God bless you, farewell, [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Hymnus in Delum” 150, “Anthologia Graeca” 5.240 (Paul. Sil.), 9.372] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; σώζοισθε [[[prev. work]171 (6th c.AD: Palladas Epigrammaticus)] Refs 6th c.AD+]; also, save oneself, escape, σώθητι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Crito” 44b ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; μόγις or μόλις σῴζεσθαι escape with difficulty, [[ [prev. author] “Ep.” 332c, 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 2.48, etc.] Refs 1st c.BC+]; χαλεπῶς σ. [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 675. ] Refs 6th c.BC+]
__1.b especially in [[ “NT”, of God or Christ, NT.1Cor.1.21, etc.; σ. τὸ ἀπολωλός NT.Luke.19.10; σ. τὸν κόσμον NT.John.12.47 ] NT]:—frequently in passive, to be saved or in a state of salvation, [[NT.Matt.19.25, etc.; οἱ σῳζόμενοι NT.Luke.13.23, NT.Act.2.47. ] NT]
__2 of things, keep safe, preserve, rare in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, σάω μὲν ταῦτα, σάω δ᾽ ἐμέ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.230; σπέρμα πυρὸς σώζων 5.490 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πόλιν καὶ ἄστυ σ. [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.144; σαώσει Ἀργείους καὶ νῆας 10.44, compare 9.230 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: frequently in Trag. and Attic dialect, σ. φάρμακον [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 686; τὰ τόξα [prev. author] “Ph.” 766 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ σκεύη, παῖδας οἶκον χρήματα, καρπούς, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 730 (_anapaest meter_), “Av.” 380 (troch.), 1062 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ πατρῷα, τὰ ὑπάρχοντα, [[ [prev. author] “Th.” 820 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.70 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. πόλιν preserve the city or the state, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.34, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 749 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1058, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 417a, compare “Grg.” 512b, etc.; τὰ πράγματα 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.74; τὴν Ἑλλάδα 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 525 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰς πολιτείας, τὴν δημοκρατίαν, etc., [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1309b15, 36 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; τόνδε γὰρ [λόγον] σῴζων keeping it secret, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 524, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1530 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σ. καιρόν save or recover an opportunity, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.6, compare 23.4 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—middle, keep or preserve for oneself, τὴν εὐλάβειαν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 993, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 146, etc.; αὐτὸς αὑτῷ σ. τι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 402, compare “Eq.” 1017 (hexameters):] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, τὸ ἄπραγμον οὐ σῴζεται is not secure, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.63 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ.. πόλις οὐκ ἂν ἐσῴζετ; [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 219 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; to be preserved or extant, of books, [[ 3rd c.AD: Longinus Rhetor cited in 3rd c.AD: Porphyrius Tyrius Philosophus “Vita Plotini” 20, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.705, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 70.2. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 keep, observe, maintain laws, etc., σ. ἐφετμάς [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 241; τὸν παρόντα νοῦν [prev. author] “Pr.” 394; τοὺς καθεστῶτας νόμους 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1114, compare 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Virtutibus et Vitiis” 1250b17; τοὺς σοὺς λόγους 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1552 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ μόρσιμον[[ [prev. work] 613; τὰ πρὸς τοὺς κατοίκους δίκαια “BGU” 562.19 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; confirm, τὸ τοῦ ποιήσαντος [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Mundo” 400b24, compare 3rd c.BC: Antigonus Carystius Paradoxographus “Mirabilia” 45 (_passive_)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; πρὸς τὸ τὰ φαινόμενα σῴζειν to retain the observed facts, [[ 5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “Hypotyposis astronomicarum positionum” 5.10 ] Refs 5th c.AD+]; κατὰ ποσὸν σῴζει τὴν πρὸς τὸ μῶλυ ἐμφέρειαν retains, i.e. does not lack, a certain resemblance to.., [[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.46, compare 98, 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus “de fasciis - Opera Hippocratis et Galeni” 8 ] Refs 1st c.AD+]:—passive, to be maintained, τοῦ μήκους σῳζομένου [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 386a2; ἐφ᾽ ᾧ τοῖς θεοῖς τὰ ἱερὰ σωθήσεσθαι “PHib.” 1.77.7 (3rd c.BC). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__4 keep in mind, remember, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 266, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 486c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: more frequently in middle, παρῆκα θεσμῶν οὐδέν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐσῳζόμην.. ὅπως δύσνιπτον ἐκ δέλτου γραφήν [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 682, compare “El.” 1257; μηδ᾽ ἂ ἔμαθε σῴζοιτο 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 455b; in full, μνήμην σῴζομαι στρατεύματος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 302 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 501a, “Tht.” 163d. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.1 simply with accusative, see above
__II.2 with a sense of motion to a place, bring one safe to, τὸν δ᾽ ἐσάωσεν ἐς ποταμοῦ προχοάς [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.452; ἐς ὅμιλον 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.401; πόλινδε 5.224, etc.; ἐς οἴκους 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 311; εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τὴν ἐπουράνιον NT.2Tim.4.18 ] NT+8th c.BC+]:—passive, come safe to a place, σωθέντος ἐμεῦ ὀπίσω ἐς οἶκον [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.97, compare 9.104; πρὸς ἤπειρον σεσῶσθαι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 737; δεῦρο 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 725; οἴκαδε 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.6.7 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σῴζεσθαι ἐπὶ τὴν ὑμετέρην [χώρην] [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.98; ἐς δόμους σωθέντ᾽ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 611; σωθῶμεν ἐπὶ θάλατταν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 6.5.20: with _dative_ _person_, μόλις ὔμμιν ἐσώθην 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.3 σ. τινὰ ἐκ φλοίσβοιο, ἐκ πολέμου, carry off safe, rescue from.. , [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.469, 11.752; ἐκ ποταμοῖο 21.274; ἐκ θανάτοιο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.753; ἐκ πολλῶν πόνων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1356; ἀπὸ στρατείας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 603; διὰ δεινῶν πραγμάτων σεσωσμένοι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.5.8: with _genitive_, σώσας ἐχθρῶν χθόνα] Refs 8th c.BC+] having rescued it from them, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1162; σῶσαί τινα κακοῦ [prev. author] “Ph.” 919; σεαυτὸν νούσου “Ath.Mitt.” 56.124 (from Smyrna)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; σωθῆναι κακῶν [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 779 ] Refs 5th c.BC+].--Both constructions may be combined, σ. τινὰ ἐκ πολέμοιο νῆας ἔπι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.452; ἐκ π. μετὰ νῆας 12.123; ἐξ Αἰγίνης δεῦρο 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 511d. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__II.4 with accusative et dative person, save for another, υἷά τινι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.765; ἡμῖν τὸν βίον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 356e, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]:— passive, σῴζεταί τί τινι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1022, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 7.7.56. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.5 with infinitive, [σπονδαὶ] αἵ σε σῴζουσιν θανεῖν which save thee from dying, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 600 (troch.). ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.6 with participle, σῴζεσθαι φεύγοντες by flight, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 3.3.51. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.7 absolutely, τὰ σώσοντα what is likely to save, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 6.5 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ σῴζουσα [ψῆφος] [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Harm.” 3. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.7.b σώζων, ὁ, [[ “Saviour”, of a god, “JRS” 14.28 (from Iconium)] Refs]; epithet of Apollo, [[ “CR” 19.368 (from Sizma). ] Refs]
__II.7.c σῴζουσα, ἡ, ={ἀρτεμισία}, Ps.-[[ 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.113. ] Refs 1st c.AD+]
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