STEP Liddell–Scott–Jones: φείδομαι

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to spare

φείδομαι,

[[ 6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus 101, etc.: ] Refs 6th c.BC+]imperfect φείδοντο (without augment) even in [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 716 ] Refs 5th c.BC+] after a diphthong at the end of the preceding line: future φείσομαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 312 (troch.), 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 31a, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+], Epic dialect πεφῐδήσομαι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.215 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], later future passive in middle sense φ[ε]ισθήσομαι [[ “PUniv.Giss.” 21.6 (2nd c.AD)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]: aorist 1 ἐφεισάμην [[ 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 32.1, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 412, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.11, etc.] Refs 6th c.BC+], Epic dialect 3rd.pers. singular φείσατο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.236: _Epic dialect_ reduplicate ] Refs 8th c.BC+]aorist 2 πεφῐδόμην, used by [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus in _optative_ πεφῐδοίμην, πεφίδοιτο, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.277, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.464 ] Refs 8th c.BC+], infinitive πεφιδέσθαι [[ 21.101 ] Refs]: perfect participle πεφεισμένος [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 59 (in middle sense, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 50.20)] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; Epic dialect imperative πεφίδησο [[ “IG” 14.1363.16 ] Refs]; participle πεφιδημένος [[ 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 12.392 ] Refs 4th c.AD+]:—spare:

__I spare persons and things, e.g. in war, i.e. not destroy them, with genitive, Τρώων [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.101; ἀνδρός 24.158, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 9.277, 22.54, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Apologia” 31a; Ἰλίου 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.215; Ἄρης οὐκ ἀγαθῶν φ. 6th c.BC: Anacreon Lyricus [same place]; ἀπ᾽ ἀνδρῶν ὧν Ἄρης ἐφείσατο 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 412; γῆς πατρίδος 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus ] Refs 8th c.BC+] [same place]; μὴ φείσῃ βίου spare not my life, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 749; μὴ φείδεσθε.. στρατοῦ [prev. author] “Aj.” 844; φ. μήτε ἰδίου μήτε δημοσίου οἰκοδομήματος 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.90, compare 3.74 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, spare, be merciful, [[[prev. work] 59. ] Refs]

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__II spare persons and things in using them, use sparingly, ἵππων φειδόμενος, i. e. taking care of them, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.202; πίθου μεσσόθι φ. 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 369 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; φ. ὃν εἶχε βίον (βίον by attraction to the relative) [[ 6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 908; ἰδίᾳ μὲν τῶν [ὄντων] φείδομαι δημοσίᾳ δὲ λῃτουργῶν ἥδομαι 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 21.16; φείδεσθε τοὐλαίου σφόδρα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus Comedy texts 190: in this sense, most frequently with a negative, οὐ φ.] Refs 6th c.BC+] not to spare, i. e. to use or give freely, οὐδέ νυ τοῦ περ [δέπαος] φείσατο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.236; μὴ φείδεο σίτου 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 604; θνῄσκωμεν ψυχέων μηκέτι φειδόμενοι 7th c.BC: Tyrtaeus Elegiacus 10.14; τᾶς ζωᾶς [prev. author] 15.5; σφετέρας οὐ φείσατο νευρᾶς 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 6(5).33; φείδεο τῶν νεῶν, μηδὲ ναυμαχίην ποιέο 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.68. ; τούτων φ. μηδενός [prev. author] 9.41, compare 39; φείδοντο κέντρων οὐδέν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 716; οὐδὲν φ. αὐτῶν οὔτ᾽ ἐν πόνοις κτλ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.2.1, compare 7.1.29; οὔτε τοῦ σώματος οὔτε τῶν ὄντων 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 2.11; οὐδενὸς ἂν ἐφείσατο τῶν ἑαυτοῦ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.24; οὔθ᾽ ἱερῶν κτεάνων οὔτε τι δημοσίων φ. 6th c.BC: Solon Lyricus 4.13; μήτε χρημάτων μήτε πόνων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 78a: later also with _accusative_, τῶν συμμάχων and τὰ τῶν συμμάχων both in 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 50.20. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]