κεντ-έω,
[[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 1.28, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: future -ήσω [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1245 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐκέντησα [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 5.45 ] Refs 5th c.BC+], Doric dialect κέντᾱσα [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 19.1 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; Epic dialect infinitive κένσαι (as if from *κέντω) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.337:] Refs 8th c.BC+] —passive, future -ηθήσομαι [[ (συγ-) 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.29 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐκεντήθην [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “de Spiritu” 483b16, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 9.15.3 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: perfect κεκέντημαι [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀνατομῆς” 1 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—prick, goad, spur on, Il.[same place], [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1300, etc.: proverbial, κ. τὸν πῶλον περὶ τὴν νύσσαν] Refs 5th c.BC+], of impetuous haste, [[ 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus ] Refs]
__2 of bees and wasps, sting, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 226, +others] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ἔρωτα κακὰ κέντασε μέλισσα Theoc.[same place]; τὠφθαλμὼ κεντούμενος ὥσπερ ὑπ᾽ ἀνθρηνῶν [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 947 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the porcupine, [[ 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 12.26: then, ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__3 generally, prick, stab, Pi.[same place], [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 15.130, etc.; μηδ᾽ ὀλωλότα κέντει 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1030; τὴν γλῶσσαν καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτῶν κέντησον “Tab.Defix.” 97.26; ἐκέντει.. [αἰθέρ᾽], ὡς σφάζων ἐμέ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 631 (troch.), etc.; κ. τὸν ἀέρα Theo Sm. p.61 H., compare p.72 H.; τύπτειν οὐδὲ κ. 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 456d:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, κεντηθείσης τῆς φλεβός Thphr.[same place]; παιομένους καὶ κεντουμένους [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.47; μαστιγούμενος καὶ κεντούμενος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 3.3.11, compare “An.” 3.1.29: _metaphorically_, σὺν δόλῳ κ.] Refs 5th c.BC+] stab in the dark, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 1245; λιμῷ κεντούμενος 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 3.4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]