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|Definition=impf. <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> ηὗδον <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>203b</span>, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Rh.</span>763</span>, <span class="bibl">779</span>, εὗδον <span class="bibl">Il.2.2</span>, <span class="bibl">Theoc. 2.126</span>; Ep. iter. εὕδεσκε <span class="bibl">Il.22.503</span>: fut. εὑδήσω <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>337</span>: aor. <b class="b3">εὕδησα</b> (καθ-) <span class="bibl">Hp.<span class="title">Int.</span>12</span>:—[[sleep]], <span class="bibl">Il.2.19</span>, <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.34</span>, etc.: c. acc. cogn., ὁππότ' ἂν αὖτε εὕδῃσθα γλυκὺν ὕπνον <span class="bibl">Od.8.445</span>; ὕπνον οὐκ εὐδαίμονα <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>1013</span>; γλυκερὸν καὶ ἐγέρσιμον ὕπνον <span class="bibl">Theoc.24.7</span>; μακρὸν ἀτέρμονα νήγρετον ὕπνον <span class="bibl">Mosch.3.104</span>; <b class="b3">ὕπνῳ γ' εὕδοντα</b> [[slumbering]] in sleep, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>65</span>; εὕδειν… παρὰ χρυσέῃ Ἀφροδίτῃ <span class="bibl">Od.8.337</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">342</span>; ξὺν ὁμήλικι εὕδειν <span class="bibl">Thgn.1063</span>; ὅλην διατελεῖν νύκτα εὕδοντα <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>807e</span>; of the [[sleep of death]], Πρόμαχος δεδμημένος εὕδει ἔγχει ἐμῷ <span class="bibl">Il.14.482</span>; οὑμὸς εὕδων… νέκυς <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>621</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> metaph., [[rest]], [[be still]], ὄφρ' εὕδῃσι μένος Βορέαο <span class="bibl">Il.5.524</span>; εὑδέτω πόντος εὑδέτω δ' ἄμοτον κακόν <span class="bibl">Simon. 37.15</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>566</span>; πόλεμον εὕδοντ' ἐπεγείρει <span class="bibl">Sol.4.19</span>; εὕδουσιν ὀρέων κορυφαί <span class="bibl">Alcm.60.1</span>; οὔπω κακὸν τόδ' εὕδει <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Supp.</span>1147</span> (lyr.); <b class="b3">εὕδει χάρις</b> [[sleeps]], [[ceases]], <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">I.</span>7(6).17</span>; οὔποθ' εὕδει λυπρά σου κηρύγματα <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hec.</span>662</span>; of the mind or heart, to [[be at ease]], πυκνῆς ἀκοῦσαι ψακάδος εὑδούσῃ φρενί <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>636</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Theoc.2.126</span>; of persons, <b class="b2">take one's ease, be inactive</b>, κεἰ βραδὺς εὕδει <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>307</span>; <b class="b3">Γοργίαν ἐάσομεν εὕδειν</b> we will let him [[rest]], <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>267a</span>. (<b class="b3">καθεύδω</b> is generally used in Att. and later Prose, exc. Pl. Il.c., <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyn.</span>5.11</span>.)</span>

|etymtx=Grammatical information: v.<br />Meaning: [[sleep]] (Il.).<br />Other forms: the simplex has only a present-stem exc. fut. <b class="b3">εὑδήσω</b> (A. Ag. 337)<br />Compounds: With prefix <b class="b3">ἐν-</b>, <b class="b3">συν-</b>, esp. <b class="b3">καθ-εύδω</b> (Il.), ipf. <b class="b3">καθ-εῦδον</b>, <b class="b3">-ηῦδον</b>, Att. also <b class="b3">ἐ-κάθευδον</b>, fut. <b class="b3">καθ-ευδήσω</b> (Att.), rare aor. <b class="b3">καθ-ευδῆσαι</b> (Ion.); with <b class="b3">ἐν-</b>, <b class="b3">ἐπι-</b>, <b class="b3">παρα-</b>, <b class="b3">συγ- καθεύδω</b> etc. As aorist we find (<b class="b3">κατα-)δαρθεῖν</b>, (-)<b class="b3">δραθεῖν</b>; Schwyzer-Debrunner 258, Schulze KZ 40, 120 = Kl. Schr. 443; s. [[δαρθάνω]].<br />Derivatives: None.<br />Origin: XX [etym. unknown]<br />Etymology: Several - unconvincing - suggestions. To Goth. [[sutis]] [[quiet]], [[calm]] (Wood ClassPhil. 9, 148f., Thurneysen IF 39, 189f. [with diff. analysis], Mayrhofer KZ 71,74f.), further with Lat. [[sūdus]] [[soft]] (Mayrhofer KZ 73, 116f.); from IE <b class="b2">*seu-d-</b> beside <b class="b2">*su̯-ep-</b> in Skt. [[svapiti]] [[sleeps]] etc. (Benveniste Origines 1, 156f.; cf. on <b class="b3">ὕπνος</b>); to Lith. <b class="b2">snáudžiu</b>, <b class="b2">snáusti</b> [[be sleepy]] (Otrębski KZ 66, 247ff.); to OE [[swodrian]] [[sleep fest]] (Grošelj Živa Ant. 7, 42). On the difficulties Schwyzer 648 n. 1.