__A happen to be at a place, εἴ πέρ τε τύχῃσι μάλα σχεδόν even if she be quite near, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.116 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; μὴ σύ γε κεῖθι τύχοις may'st thou not be there, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.106; πέτρη τετύχηκε διαμπερὲς ἀμφοτέρωθεν 10.88; πεδίοιο διαπρύσιον τετυχηκώς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.748 ] Refs 8th c.BC+] (but in these last two places the meaning may be 'has been made' (though not by human agency), compare [γαῖα] οὐδ᾽ εὐρεῖα τέτυκται [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.243; γυναικὸς ἄρ᾽ ἀντὶ τέτυξο 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.163, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; see ad near the end).
__A.II joined with the participle of another Verb to express a coincidence, τύχησε γὰρ ἐρχομένη νηῦς a ship happened to be, i. e. was just then, starting, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.334; ξεῖνος ἐὼν ἐτύχησε παρ᾽ ἱπποδάμοισι Γερηνοῖς 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Fragmenta” 15.3, compare 7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 7.19, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 1.49; πρυτανεία ἣ ἂν τυγχάνῃ πρυτανεύουσα “IG” 12.63.27 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], compare 52; τὰ νοέων τυγχάνω what I happen to have, i.e. have at this moment, in my mind, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.88, compare 8.65, 68. ; ἐτετεύχεε ἐπισπόμενος [prev. author] 3.14 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὃ τυγχάνω μαθών which I have just learnt, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 370 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παρὼν ἐτύγχανον I was by just then, [[ [prev. author] “Aj.” 748 ] Refs]; τυγχάνει καθεύδων he is sleeping just now, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 336 (troch.)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔτυχον στρατευόμενοι they were just then engaged in an expedition, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.104 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔτυχε κατὰ τοῦτο καιροῦ ἐλθών he came just at this point of time, [[ [prev. author] 7.2 ] Refs]; ἥτις δέ τοι μάλιστα σωφρονεῖν δοκεῖ, αὕτη μέγιστα τυγχάνει λωβωμένη she is just the one who.., [[ 7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 7.109 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; but frequently τυγχάνω cannot be translated at all, especially in phrase τυγχάνω ὤν, which is simply ={εἰμί}, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 88, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 35, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 313c, etc. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 the participle ὤν is sometimes omitted, ὁ γὰρ μέγιστος τυγχάνει δορυξένων [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 46; εἴ σοι χαρτὰ τυγχάνει τάδε [prev. work] 1457 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; νῦν δ᾽ ἀγροῖσι τυγχάνει[[ [prev. work] 313; ἔνδον γὰρ ἄρτι τυγχάνει [prev. author] “Aj.” 9; εἴ τις εὔνους τυγχάνει 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 1141; εἰ σὺ τυγχάνεις ἐπιστήμων τούτων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 313e, compare “Grg.” 502b, “R.” 369b, +others: sometimes τυγχάνειν] Refs 5th c.BC+] is used much like{εἶναι, Σωτὴρ γένοιτ᾽ ἂν Ζεὺς ἐπ᾽ ἀσπίδος τυχών} [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 520 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; οὐκ ἀποδάμου τυχόντος not being absent, [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.5 (compare τόσσαις); ποῦ χρὴ τηνικαῦτα τυγχάνει; 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 730 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τ. ἐν ἐμπύροις to be engaged in.., [[ [prev. author] “Andr.” 1113; frequently in 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus, δύο μέρη τετύχηκεν ἐξ ὧν ἡ πόλις “Pol.” 1318a31, compare 1289b16, “Top.” 151b11 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; also in later Gr., τὰ ἑπτάμηνα γόνιμα τυγχάνειν [[ 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 1.55, compare 69, +others; νέος πάνυ τυγχάνων “PLips.” 40 ii 7 (4th c.AD), etc.:— 2nd c.AD: Phrynichus Atticista 244 rejects this usage in 2nd c.AD: Atticus Philosophus ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__II.2.b τυγχάνον, ={τὸ ἐκτὸς ὑποκείμενον}, the external reality, e. g. αὐτὸς ὁ Δίων as distinguished both from the word (φωνή) Δίων and its meaning, [[ “Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta” 2.48. ] Refs]
__II.3 later with infinitive, τυγχάνομεν ἐπιδεδωκέναι we happen to have handed in.., we have just handed in.., [[ “PTeb.” 796.13 (2nd c.BC),compare “PSI” 10.1118.8 (1st c.AD), 1.39.4 (2nd c.AD), 1st-2nd c.AD: Heliodorus Medicus et 2nd c.AD: Antyllus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 44.8.21, 25, 44.23.21, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 18(2).394. ] Refs 2nd c.BC+]
__B.II.2.c after either case a genitive person may be added, obtain a thing from a person, ὧν δέ σου τυχεῖν ἐφίεμαι [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1315; σου τοῦτο τ. [prev. author] “OC” 1168 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; or the person may be added with a preposition, τ. ἐπαίνου ἔκ τινος [[ [prev. author] “Ant.” 665; παρὰ σεῖο τ. φιλότητος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.158; τιμίαν ἕδραν παρ᾽ ἀνδρῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 856 (uncertain); αἰδοῦς ὑπό τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.10, compare “Mem.” 4.8.10, etc.: _absolutely_, χρὴ πρὸς μακάρων τυγχάνοντ᾽ εὖ πασχέμεν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.104. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.II.2.d with infinitive, οἶμαί σου τεύξεσθαι μεθεῖναί με [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Philebus” 50d; ἐὰν ψαῦσαι τοῦ νεκροῦ τύχωμεν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Pelopidas” 33 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ τυχὼν ἐπιδείξειν (={ἐπιδεῖξαι}) not having succeeded in proving, [[ “PPetr.” 3p.153 (3rd c.BC). (Τυ-γ-χ-άνω, with ἐτύχησα, τετύχηκα, is formed from the ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]aorist τυχ-εῖν, which was originally the aorist passive (with active form) of τεύχω 'make'; ἔτυχε = factum est, as ἔτραφον = I was nourished (see. τρέφω); senses [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus 1.1-3 are the oldest and are parallel to τεύχω 11 (especially _passive_)] Refs 4th c.BC+]; many of the forms belong equally to both verbs; τιτύσκομαι like wise belongs to both verbs; τ(ε)υχ- from *θ(ε)υχ-, compare ἀποθύσκειν, ἐνθύσκει, συνθύξω, and perhaps [[ \{1st c.BC-1st c.AD\}: Germanicus Caesar Epigrammaticus ] Refs 1st c.BC+] taugen 'to be capable, useful', Engl. dow, doughty.)
