στοχ-άζομαι,
[[Pl “Grg.” 465a, etc.] Refs]: imperfect ἐστοχαζόμην [[ [prev. author] “Euthd.” 277b ] Refs]: future -άσομαι[[ 5th-6th c.BC: Isocrates Orator “Epistulae” 6.10, 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 10.6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἐστοχασάμην [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 464c, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect ἐστόχασμαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 635a, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 571a27:— 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus uses this ] Refs 5th c.BC+]perfect, as also aorist ἐστοχάσθην, in passive sense, perfect in 10.885, 11.35, aorist in 13.713,[[compare 2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus cited in 4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus 7.26.40 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ἐστοχάσθην in active sense, [[ 3rd c.AD: Pseudo-Callisthenes Historicus 1.3 (codex L)] Refs 3rd c.AD+]: (στόχος):—aim or shoot at, with genitive, [σκοποῦ] [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 519c, Isoc.[same place]; δίκην τοξότου σ. τινός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 706a ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἄλλου στοχαζόμενος ἔτυχε τούτου aiming at another man hit the deceased, [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.1.4; σ. ἀνθρώπων 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.6.29. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, aim at, endeavour after, μέτρου [[ 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 9; τοῦ ἡδέος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 465a; τοῦ μεγίστου ἀγαθοῦ [prev. author] “R.” 462a; τῆς σωτηρίας [prev. author] “Lg.” 962a; ἡ φύσις ἐστόχασται ἑκάστου οὐδέν τι ἔλασσον τῆς ἀπολήξεως ἢ τῆς ἀρχῆς 2nd c.AD: Marcus Antoninus Imperator 8.20; τοῦ γέλωτα ποιῆσαι 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1128a6 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοῦ ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ γινομένου [[Id “HA” [same place] ] Refs]; σ. τῶν μάλιστα φίλων κριτῶν aim at having them as judges, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.2.27; so τῆς τοῦ δήμου βουλήσεως 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 6.16.5; τῶν πολιτῶν LXX.2Mac.14.8; also πρός τι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 693c, compare 962d; οὕτω σ. ὅπως.. 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἄρθρων ἐμβολῆς” 4, cf. Diocl.fragment 138, “SIG” 609.7 (Delph., 2nd c.BC), “PTeb.” 27.70 (2nd c.BC). ] LXX+5th c.BC+]