ἀτῠχ-έω,
future -ήσω[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 427, 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 114] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἠτύχησα[[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.111, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.2.6] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect ἠτύχηκα[[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 20.53, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 149, 4th-3rd c.BC: Philemo Comicus 107: rarely in ] Refs 4th c.BC+]passive (see. below):—to be unfortunate, fail, miscarry, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 427, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.32, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to κατορθόω, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator 3.24, etc.; ἀ. ἔν τινι [prev. author] 12.105; πεζῇ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1303a8] Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ ἀτυχοῦντες, ={οἱ ἀτυχεῖς}, [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.4.9: euphemistic for ἀτιμοῦσθαι, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.60. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 with genitive,fail of a thing, fail in getting it, τῆς ἀληθείας[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 186c; τῶν δικαίων οὐδενός 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.1.22] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with participle, ἀ. κτώμενοι[[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.62, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 470: with ] Refs 5th c.BC+]infinitive, [[Vett. Val. 358.30] Refs]: with accusative, τὸ ἀγαθόν[[ 4th-5th c.AD: Eunapius Historicus “Vitae Sophistarum” p.469B. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__3 fail in one's request, meet with a refusal, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.111; πρός τινα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.14] Refs 5th c.BC+]; παρὰ θεῶν[[.. [prev. work] 1.6.6; τι παρά τινος “IG” 2.86; ἀ. τινός 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 114] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, τὰ ἀτυχηθέντα mischances, failures, [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.212; τὰ ἠτυχημένα 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 16.8.6; ἠτύχητο ἡ μάχη 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Isocrate” 9.] Refs 4th c.BC+] —Chiefly in Comedy texts and _Attic dialect_ Prose, never in Trag.