ξύω,
Epic dialect imperfect ξῦον [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.456 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist ἔξῡσα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.179, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ τῶν ἐν κεφαλη—ͅ τρωμάτων” 14 (ἐγ-ξύσῃ [ῠ] ] Refs 8th c.BC+] is probably falsa lectio for{-ξέσῃ} in [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 298 codices 5th c.AD: Stobaeus, Joannes, and so διέξῠσεν for -έξεσεν in 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus “Dionysiaca” 39.321)] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—middle, aorist ἐξῡσάμην [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 6.2.32 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus 150 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐξύσθην [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 570a9, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 5.6.13 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: perfect ἔξυσμαι [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.544, (περι-) 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 2.192 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—scratch, scrape, λίστροισιν δάπεδον ξῦον they scraped the floor with rakes, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey”] Refs 8th c.BC+] [prev. cited]; scratch, proverbial τὸν ξύοντα ἀντιξύειν 'claw me, claw thee', [[ 5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus 149 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; γέροντα κωνείῳ ξύοντα τὴν γῆν scratching a diagram on the earth, [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Iambi” 1.122 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; τῷ δακτύλῳ [τὴν γῆν] [[Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 31 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; γράψαι τὸ ξῦσαι παρὰ τοῖς παλαιοῖς (i. e. in [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, compare γράφω I. 1) 2nd c.BC: Dionysius Thrax Grammaticus 630.28: _metaphorically_, ξῦσαι ἀπὸ γῆρας ὀλοιόν] Refs 8th c.BC+] scrape off, get rid of, sad old age, [[ “hymnus ad Venerem” 224 ] Refs]; πᾶσαν ᾐόνα ξύων scouring the whole coast, of a fisherman, [[ 2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 6.1 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ={ἐπιξύω}, graze, of stars which touch the horizon but do not set, [[ 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra “Phaen.Prooem.” p.2 H] Refs 3rd c.BC+].:—middle, scratch oneself, ξυόμενοι ἥδονται [[ 3rd c.AD: Democritus Epigrammaticus 127; ξυόμενοι πρὸς τὰ δένδρα ἐκθλίβουσι τοὺς ὄρχεις 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 578b4, compare “Pr.” 953b37; τὴν κεφαλὴν ξύστρᾳ ξ. 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Lex.” 5 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—passive, τοῦ πηλοῦ ξυσθέντος being scraped up, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 570a9 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]; of land, to beeroded, scoured away, by water, ξυσθείσης καὶ ἀφανισθείσης γῆς [[ “POxy.” 1911.193 (6th c.AD). ] Refs 6th c.AD+]