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χέω,
used in the simple form mostly by Poets, but see at {ἐγ-}, κατα-, συγ-χέω; -εει is not contraction by Epic dialect, see [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.147, 9.15, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 421 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; but in Trag. and Attic dialect always so, ἐκ-χεῖ, συγ-χεῖς, κατα-χεῖν, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1291, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 37 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1091 (hexameters)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; for -εε no rule is observed, imperfect χέε [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.220; but σύγ-χει 9.612, 13.808, χεῖσθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.518; κατ-έχεε 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 74, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 45.74 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν-έχει, ἐν-έχεις, ἐξ-έχει, [[ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 1.19, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1021, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1029 (Lyric poetry):] Refs 5th c.BC+] — -έῃ, -έο, -έου, -έω seem never to have been contracted, except ἐγχεῦντα [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 10.53:] Refs 3rd c.BC+] — future χέω (ἐκ-χεῶ accusative to [[ 4th-5th c.AD: Choeroboscus Grammaticus “Scholia in Theodosii Canones” 2.168 ] Refs 4th c.AD+] H., but this is Hellenistic, [[ LXX.Jer.6.11, +others, ἐκ-χεεῖςLXX.Exo.4.9 ] LXX], ἐκ-χεεῖ [[[prev. work] LXX.Lev.4.18, 25, ἐκ-χεεῖτεLXX.Deu.12.16, 24, ἐκ-χεοῦσιLXX.Lev.4.12, προσ-χεεῖςLXX.Exo.29.16, +others, and the ] LXX]middle χεόμενος (see. below) points to Attic dialect χέω), συγ- [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 384, ἐπι-χεῖς 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 169 (_anapaest meter_); παρα-χέων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 69.3 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect future χεύω [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.222 (χρειώ 3rd-2nd c.BC: Aristarchus Grammaticus, whence χείω Porson)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist ἔχεα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.347, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).64, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect ἔχευα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.270, 4.269, χεῦα 14.436, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.584, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect aorist 1 subjunctive χεύομεν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.336 (late ἔχευσα “Anthologia Graeca” 14.124 (4th c.AD: Metrodorus Epigrammaticus)): ] Refs 8th c.BC+]perfect κέχῠκα, (ἐκ-) [[ 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 915, “APl.” 4.242 (1st c.BC: Erycius Epigrammaticus)] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—middle, future Attic dialect χεόμενος [[ 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.51 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]: aorist ἐχεάμην [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.43, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 220 (troch.), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 477, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1020 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect ἐχευάμην, χευάμην, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.314, 18.24, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect subjunctive χεύεται (περι-) [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.232 (perhaps _indicative_):] Refs 8th c.BC+] —passive, future χῠθήσομαι (συγ-) [[ 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 23.62, compare 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Antiquitates Judaicae” 8.8.5: later χεθήσομαι, (ἐκ-) 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Epicteti Dissertationes” 4.10.26:] Refs 4th c.BC+] —aorist 1 ἐχύθην [ῠ] [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.590, etc.: later ἐχέθην,] Refs 8th c.BC+] not in Inscrr. or Papyrus, falsa lectio in [[ 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 1.455, 3rd c.BC: Euclides Geometra “Catoptr.Prooem.” (vii p.286 H., ἐγ-, ἐκ-), etc.: also _Epic dialect_ ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]aorist χύτο [ῠ] [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.385, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.143; ἐξ-έχῠτο 19.470 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἔχυντο, χύντο,[[ 10.415, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.526 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; participle χύμενος, η, ον, [[ 19.284, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.527, and Trag. in Lyric poetry, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 401, “Eu.” 263, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 76 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect κέχῠμαι [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.141, 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica “Papyrus fragments” in E. Diehl, 25.12, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 1.4, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]: pluperfect Epic dialect κέχῠτο [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.696, etc.] Refs 8th c.BC+]—Epic dialect present χείω, [[ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 83 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; later Epic dialect present χεύω both in the simple Verb and compounds, [[ 2nd c.BC: Nicander Epicus “Alexipharmaca” 381, “Lyrica Alexandrina Adespota” 35.19 (perhaps 2nd c.AD: Mesomedes Lyricus), 4th-5th c.AD(?): Nonnus Epicus 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 18.344, 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 2.127 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—middle, χεύομαι [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 2.926 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]: in later Prose present χύνω (which see); χῦσαι is falsa lectio for{λῦσαι} in codices dett. of [[ 3rd-4th c.AD: Tryphiodorus Epicus 205.] Refs 3rd c.AD+] —Rare in Prose, except in compounds and in middle
__B.I properly of liquids, pour out, let flow, κρήνη κατ᾽ αἰγίλιπος πέτρης χέει ὕδωρ [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.15; βασιλεῦσιν ὕδωρ ἐπὶ χεῖρας ἔχευαν 3.270, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.146, etc.; οἶνον χαμάδις χέε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.220; κατὰ στόματος νέκταρ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 7.82: χέει ὕδωρ,] Refs 8th c.BC+] of Zeus, i.e. makes it rain, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.385; ὅταν βορέας χιόνα.. χέῃ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 328: _absolutely_, χέει] Refs 8th c.BC+] it snows, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.281 (νειφέμεν is in l. 280)] Refs 8th c.BC+]: frequently of drink-offerings, χέουσα χοάς [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 87 ] Refs 4th c.BC+]:—middle, χοὴν χεῖσθαι νεκύεσσι [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.518; χοὴν χεόμην νεκύεσσι 11.26; χοὰς χέασθαι 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.43, etc.: _absolutely_, 4th c.BC: Isaeus Orator 6.51, 65 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, κέχυται [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.284 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; κρῆναι χέονται they gush forth, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 748 (Lyric poetry); ποτοῦ χυθέντος ἐς γῆν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 704 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; χέεσθαι βουτύρῳ, γάλακτι to flow with.., [[ LXX.Job.29.6. ] LXX]
__B.I.2 χ. δάκρυα shed tears, δάκρυα θερμὰ χέοντες [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.426, compare 16.3, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 38; ἀπ᾽ ὀφθαλμῶν [prev. author] “Cyc.” 405 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—middle, ὅσα σώματα χεῖται [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 83e ] Refs 5th c.BC+]:—passive, of tears, flow, δάκρυα θερμὰ χέοντο [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.523; ἀπ᾽ ὀφθαλμῶν χύτο δάκρυα 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.385 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of blood, to be shed, drip, φονίας σταγόνας χυμένας ἐς πέδον [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 401 (_anapaest meter_), compare “Eu.” 263 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__B.I.3 smelt metal, [[ LXX.Mal.3.3. ] LXX]
__B.I.3.b cast, of bronze statues, [[ “SIG” 3g (Susa, from Didyma, 6th c.BC(?)). ] Refs 6th c.BC+]
__B.I.4 passive, become liquid, melt, dissolve, τὰ κεχυμένα, opposed to τὰ συνεστῶτα, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 66c ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the ground in spring, [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Oeconomicus” 16.12, 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “de Causis Plantarum” 3.4.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κεχυμένοι ὀφθαλμοί perhaps moist, languishing eyes, [[ 4th c.AD: Hephaestio Astrologus 1.1. ] Refs 4th c.AD+]
__B.II of solids, shed, scatter, φύλλα ἄνεμος χαμάδις χέει [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.147; κῦμα φῦκος ἔχευεν 9.7; πτερὰ ἔραζε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.527 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν.. ἄλφιτα χ. δοροῖσιν pour into..,[[ 2.354; [κρέα] εἰν ἐλεοῖσιν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.215; κόνιν κὰκ κεφαλῆς 18.24, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 24.317 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; καλάμην χθονί, of a mower or reaper, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 19.222 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, ἐν νάσῳ κέχυται σπέρμα [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.42 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; πάγου χυθέντος when the frost was on the ground, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 293 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κέχυται νόσος has spread through his frame, [[ [prev. author] “Tr.” 853 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs]
__B.II.2 throw up earth, so as to form a mound, σῆμ᾽ ἔχεαν [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.799 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; χεύαντες δὲ τὸ σῆμα[[ [prev. work] 801, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.291; τύμβον χ. 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.336, etc.; θανόντι χυτὴν ἐπὶ γαῖαν ἔχευαν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.258, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.256. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.II.3 χ. δούρατα shower spears, [[ 5.618 ] Refs]:—middle, βέλεα χέοντο they showered their darts, [[ 8.159. ] Refs]
__B.II.4 let fall, drop, κατὰ δ᾽ ἡνία χεῦεν ἔραζε [[ 17.619; εἴδατα ἔραζε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.20 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀπὸ κρατὸς χέε (variant for{βάλε}) δέσματα [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.468; κρόκου βαφὰς ἐς πέδον χέουσα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 239 (Lyric poetry) (but καρπὸν χ.,] Refs 8th c.BC+] of trees, not to shed their fruit, but to let it hang down in profusion, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.588)] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, πλόκαμος γένυν παρ᾽ αὐτὴν κεχυμένος streaming down, falling, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 456. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__B.II.5 in passive, to be heaped up, massed together, [ἰχθύες] ἐπὶ ψαμάθοισι κέχυνται [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.387, compare 389 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of dead geese, [[ 19.539 ] Refs]; of dung,[[ 17.298, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.775; also σωρὸν σίτου κεχυμένον 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.22. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.II.6 passive, of living beings, stream in a dense throng, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.267, etc.; δακρυόεντες ἔχυντο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 10.415, etc.: of sheep, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.141. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.II.7 of persons, ἀμφ᾽ αὐτῷ χυμένη throwing herself around him,[[ 19.284, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.527 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—middle, ἀμφὶ φίλον υἱὸν ἐχεύατο πήχεε [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.314 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, of things, ἀμφὶ δὲ δεσμοὶ τεχνήεντες ἔχυντο [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.297. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.II.8 perfect passive κέχυμαι, to be wholly engaged or absorbed in, Δᾶλος, ἐν ᾇ κέχυμαι [[ 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 1.4 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; κεχυμένος ἐς τἀφροδίσια, Latin effusus in Venerem, [[ 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sacr.” 5; πρὸς ἡδονήν 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 1.6. ] Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__B.III of impalpable things:
__B.III.1 of the voice, φωνήν, αὐδὴν χ., [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.521, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 396, compare “Th.” 83; ἐπὶ θρῆνον ἔχεαν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).64; Ἑλλάδος φθόγγον χέουσα 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 73, compare “Supp.” 632 (Lyric poetry), “fragment” 36 (Lyric poetry) ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; of wind instruments, πνεῦμα χέων ἐν αὐλοῖς [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 148.8, compare “APl.” 4.226 (7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus)] Refs 7th c.BC+]:—middle, κωμῳδικὰ πολλὰ χέασθαι [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1020 (_anapaest meter_):] Refs 5th c.BC+] —but in passive, κεχυμένα ᾄσματα non-rhythmical melodies, [[ 3rd c.AD(?): Aristides Quintilianus Musicus 1.13. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__B.III.1.b κὰκ κεφαλῆς χεῦεν πολὺ κάλλος [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.156; δόλον περὶ δέμνια χεῦεν 8.282. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.III.2 of things that obscure the sight, κατ᾽ ὀφθαλμῶν χέεν ἀχλύν shed a dark cloud over the eyes, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.321 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πολλὴν ἠέρα χεῦε shed a mist abroad, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.15, etc. (so εὔκρατος ἀὴρ χεῖται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Axiochus” 371d); τῷ δ᾽ ὕπνον ἀπήμονά τε λιαρόν τε χεύῃ ἐπὶ βλεφάροισιν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.165, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.395, etc.:] Refs 8th c.BC+] — passive, ἀμφὶ δέ οἱ θάνατος χύτο was shed around him, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.544; κατ᾽ ὀφθαλμῶν κέχυτ᾽ ἀχλύς 5.696; νύξ 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 727 (but πάλιν χύτο ἀήρ] Refs 8th c.BC+] the mist dissolved or vanished, [[ 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 7.143); οὔ κέ μοι ὕπνος ἐπὶ βλεφάροισι χυθείη 19.590 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐχεύατο πόντον ἔπι φρίξ (middle in passive sense) [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.63. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__B.III.3 aorist passive, ἐχύθη οἱ θυμός his mind overflowed with joy, [[ 3rd c.BC: Apollonius Rhodius Epicus 3.1009. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__B.III.4 passive, to be dissipated, diffused, [[ 3rd c.AD: Plotinus Philosophus 1.4.10; οὐδὲν τοῦ χεῖσθαι δεηθέν [prev. author] 6.5.3 ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]; to be rarefied, opposed to πιλεῖσθαι, [[ 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 15.28] Refs 2nd c.AD+]. (Cf. Sanskrit juhóti 'pour (sacrificial offerings)', participle hutás (= χυτός), Latin fundo, Gothic giutan 'pour'.)
