ναίω,
poet. Verb, active (intransitive) only in present and imperfect (Epic dialect ναίεσκον [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.708), ] Refs 8th c.BC+]future and aorist in causal and middle and passive forms, see below [[ 11, 111: ] Refs]
__1 of persons, dwell, abide, mostly followed by a preposition of Place, ἐν Λῃ, etc., Il.[same place], etc.; ῥοῇς ἔπι Σαγγαρίοιο [[ 16.719; ἐπ᾽ ἄκρων ὀρέων 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1105 (Lyric poetry); κατὰ πτόλιν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.130; ἀν᾽ οὔρεα 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 130; πὰρ ποταμόν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.522; ὑπὸ Πλάκῳ 6.396: with _dative_ loci, αἰθέρι ναίων 2.412, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 18, etc.; ν. μετά τινος 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 1105 (Lyric poetry): _metaphorically_, τὴν σὴν δ᾽ ὁμοῦ ναίουσαν [ὀργήν] [prev. author] “OT” 338; τὰν ἀρετὰν ναίειν ἐπὶ πέτραις 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 58 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: with adverb, [κακότης] ἐγγύθι ναίει [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 288; ἵνα αἱ Φορκίδες ναίουσι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 794 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]. b. with accusative loci, dwell in, inhabit, οἰκία, δώματα, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.288, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 8, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 7.5, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἅλα, πλάκας ὀρέων, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1584, “Ba.” 719; frequently with place-names, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.615, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 22, etc.: _metaphorically_, Πειθὼ ναίει καὶ Χάρις υἱὸν Ἄγησίλα uncertain in 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 123.10 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of the statues of gods, πρόπυλα ναίουσιν τάδε [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1375 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, to be inhabited, [[ [prev. author] “fragment” 1125 (in _aorist_ ἐνάσθη), etc.] Refs]; πολίταις [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 16.88; ὑπ᾽ ἀνδράσι 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 1.794. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]