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|mdlsjtxt=<br />to [[learn]] by [[hearsay]] or by [[inquiry]], Hdt.:<br /><b class="num">1.</b> πυνθ. τί τινος to [[learn]] [[something]] from a [[person]], Hom., etc.; τι ἀπό τινος Aesch.; ἔκ τινος Soph.; [[παρά]] τινος Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> c. acc. rei only, to [[hear]] or [[learn]] a [[thing]], Od., [[attic]]<br /><b class="num">3.</b> c. gen. to [[hear]] of, [[hear]] [[tell]] of, [[hear]] [[news]] of, Od., etc.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> π. τινά τινος to [[inquire]] [[about]] one [[person]] of or from [[another]], Ar.; so, π. [[περί]] τινος Hdt., [[attic]]<br /><b class="num">5.</b> c. [[part]]., πυθόμην ὁρμαίνοντα ὁδόν I [[heard]] that he was starting, Od.; π. τὸ Πλημμύριον ἑαλωκός to [[hear]] that [[Plemmyrium]] had been taken, Thuc.:—so, [[οὔπω]] πυθέσθην Πατρόκλοιο θανόντος they had not yet [[heard]] of his [[being]] [[dead]], Il.<br /><b class="num">6.</b> c. inf. to [[hear]] or [[learn]] that, Soph., etc.