STEP Liddell–Scott–Jones: τέρπω

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to delight

τέρπω,

[[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.347, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect subjunctive τέρπῃσι [[ 17.385 ] Refs]: Ionic dialect imperfect τέρπεσκον [[ 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 7.378, “Anthologia Graeca” 9.136 (from Cyrus)] Refs 4th c.AD+]: future τέρψω [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1246, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist ἔτερψα [[ “hymnus ad Panem” 47, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 433, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 658b:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —the passive and middle have a fivefold aorist,

__1 ἐτέρφθην [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.74, 8.131, 17.174, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1140, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 541 (troch.)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; rare in Prose, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.24. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]

__2 _Epic dialect_ ἐτάρφθην, τάρφθην, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.99, 19.213, 251, 21.57.

__3 _Epic dialect_ ἐτάρπην, τάρπην, [[23.300, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.780, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; infinitive ταρπῆναι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.212, and ταρπήμεναι [prev. work] 346, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.3; ] Refs 8th c.BC+]subjunctive τρᾰπείω, Epic dialect 1st pers. plural τρᾰπείομεν (see. below [[ 11.2). ] Refs]

__4 Epic dialect also ἐταρπόμην, only in 1st pers. plural subjunctive ταρπώμεθα [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.295, +others] Refs 8th c.BC+]; also reduplicate through all moods, τετάρπετο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.19, 24.513; τεταρπώμεσθα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.212, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.10, 98; τεταρπόμενος 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.310, +others ] Refs 8th c.BC+]

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__5 aorist 1 ἐτερψάμην, in Epic dialect subjunctive τέρψομαι [[ 16.26 (but τέρψομαι] Refs] is future middle in [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.23, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 677); _optative_ τέρψαιτο “hymnus ad Apollinem” 153 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; participle τερψάμενος [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.188 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—delight, gladden, cheer, ὅ κεν τέρπῃσιν ἀείδων [[ 17.385; τῇ [φόρμιγγι] ὅ γε θυμὸν ἔτερπεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.189, +others; πεσσοῖσι.. θυμὸν ἔτερπον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.107; καὶ τὸν ἔτερπε λόγοις 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.393; τοὐμὸν.. τ. κέαρ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1246 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; θοίνῃ σε τ. [[ 5th c.BC: Achaeus Tragicus 17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ἀγγελίη.. ἔτερψε [αὐτούς] [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.99 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; sometimes in Attic dialect Prose, ἔπεσι.. τὸ αὐτίκα τέρψει will give momentary pleasure, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.41, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 658b, 658e, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τ. τὴν ἀκοήν, τὰς ἀκοάς, [[ 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ ποιημάτων” 5.26, 28 ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; ἧλιξ τέρπει τὸν ἥλικα, proverbial in [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 240c, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, give delight, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.347, 8.45, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 475 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; τὰ τέρποντα delights, [[ [prev. author] “OC” 1217 (Lyric poetry)] Refs]; ῥήματα τέρψαντά τι[[ [prev. work] 1281; οἱ τέρποντες λόγῳ ῥήτορες 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.40; τὰ τέρψοντα 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 9.4. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]

__II.2 enjoy or delight oneself, with dative instrumental, φρένα τ. φόρμιγγι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.186; μύθοισι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.301; δαιτί 1.26; γόῳ φρένα 4.102; δίσκοισιν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.774; ἐν θαλίῃς 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.603, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 115 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; φιλότητι (or ἐν φ.) τραπείομεν εὐνηθέντε [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.441, 14.314 (whereas in the phrase λέκτρονδε τραπείομεν εὐνηθέντες (variant{-θέντε}), 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.292, the form τραπείομεν seems to be taken by the poet as belonging to τρέπω, though others retain the usually sense by connecting λέκτρονδε with εὐνηθέντες or by punctuating after λέκτρονδε)] Refs 8th c.BC+]; so in Trag., λαμπάδι τερπόμεναι [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 1042 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 1140, etc.] Refs 5th c.BC+]; delight in, τῇ τῶν πυραμίδων μεγαλειότητι [[ “OGI” 666.26 (Egypt, 1st c.AD)] Refs 1st c.AD+]; τοῖς εὐώδεσι [[ 2nd c.AD: Soranus Medicus 2.29; ἐπί τισι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 194 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]: with participle, λόγοις.. οἷς σὺ μὴ τέρψῃ κλύων [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 691; τέρπεται τιμώμενος 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 321 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; τί ἂν.. ἀκούσας τερφθείη; [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.1.24: _absolutely_, πῖνε καὶ τέρπευ] Refs 5th c.BC+] drink and be merry, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.78. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]