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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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Greek1: propempô 2: pompê 3: proiallô 4: apoproiêmi 5: epiproiêmi
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pempô, Ep. inf. -emenai, -emen, Hom. Od. 13.48, au=Hom. Od. 10.18 : Ion. impf. pempeske Hdt. 7.106 : fut. pempsô Hom. Od. 5.167, etc.; Dor. pempsô Theoc.5.141; Ep.inf. pempsemenai Hom. Od. 10.484: aor. epempsa, Ep. pempsa Hom. Il. 1.442, au=Hom. Il. 21.43, etc.: pf. pepompha Thuc. 7.12, Xen. Cyrop. 6.2.10, Dem. 4.48 : plpf. epempomphei, Ion. -ee, Xen. Cyrop. 6.2.9, Hdt. 1.85 :--

  • Med. (not in early Prose, exc. in compds. apo-, meta-, pro-pempomai), fut. pempsomai only f.l. in Eur. Orest. 111 : aor. epempsamên IDEM=Eur. Hec. 977 :--

  • Pass., fut. pemphthêsomai Str. 1.1.4, Plu.Demetr.27 : aor. epemphthên Pind. N. 3.59, Soph. El. 1163, etc.: 3sg.pf. pepemptai Aesch. Seven 473, (pro-) Thuc. 7.77; part. pepemmenos Dem. 23.159, Luc. Alex.32, D.C.50.13: plpf. epepempto IDEM=D.C.36.18, (proup-) Thuc. 8.79 (cj.) :--

  • send, freq. of persons, as messengers, spies, etc., Hom. Il. 3.116, Aesch. Seven 37, Hdt. 7.15, etc.; of troops, Aesch. Pers. 34 (anap.), ti=Aesch. Seven 470 : c. dupl. acc., hodon p. tina send one on a journey, Soph. Aj. 739, cf.ti=Soph. El. 1163 (Pass.); also of things, pempsô de toi ouron opisthen Hom. Od. 5.167, etc.; p. grammata, epistolên, Plat. L. 310d, au=Plat. L. 323b; in letters, in the epistolary aorist, Thuc. 1.129, Xen. Anab. 1.9.25, LXX2 Es.4.14; p. kakon tini send one evil, Hom. Il. 15.109; p. parabasin Erinun Aesch. Ag. 59 (anap.); poinas, zêmian, IDEM=Aesch. Eum. 203 (dub.), E.Fr.506; psophon p. esô IDEM=Eur. IT 1308; hupnon, oneirata, Soph. Phil. 19, ti=Soph. El. 460; freq. of omens, p.oiônon, terata, Hom. Il. 24.310, Xen. Mem. 1.4.15, cf. ti=Xen. Sym. 4.48; manteias Soph. OT 149; also hikesious p. litas IDEM=Soph. Phil. 495 ; p. arôgas, alkan, Aesch. Eum. 598, Soph. OT 189(lyr.) :--

  • Constr.:

    II. send forth or away, dismiss, send home, ton xeinon     Hom. Od. 7.227, al.: less freq. in Il., as 24.780; chrê xeinon pareonta philein, ethelonta de pempein 'welcome the coming, speed the parting guest', Hom. Od. 15.74 ; hupedekto kai pempe au=Hom. Od. 23.315 ; of the father who sends off his daughter to go to her husband, c. dat., au=Hom. Od. 4.5 ; p. tina apoikon Soph. OT 1518, etc.

    III. conduct, escort,     Hom. Il. 1.390, Hom. Od. 14.336, Soph. Trach. 571, etc.; freq. of Hermes and other gods, Hom. Od. 11.626, Aesch. Eum. 12, ti=Aesch. Supp. 219; ho pempôn abs., of Hermes, Soph. Phil. 133 (cf.pompos, pompaios, etc.); of a ship, convey, carry, Hom. Od. 8.556, cf. Aesch. Supp. 136(lyr.); kraipnophoroi de m' epempsan aurai IDEM=Aesch. PB 132(lyr.), cf. Pind. P. 4.203 (Pass.).

    IV. send as a present, heimata, siton,     Hom. Od. 16.83,au=Hom. Od. 4.623; p. dôra, skula, xenia, Hdt. 7.106 (Act. and Pass.), Soph. Phil. 1429, Xen. Cyrop. 3.1.42.

    V. send up, produce, hosa pempei biodôros aia     Soph. Phil. 1162 (lyr.).

    B. Med., pempesthai tina send for one,     Soph. OC 602, ubiv. Sch.; ti chrêm' epempsô ton emon ek domôn poda; Eur. Hec. 977.