θέσσασθαι
χρὴ τῶν ἀγαθῶν διακναιομένων πενθεῖν ὅστις χρηστὸς ἀπ' ἀρχῆς νενόμισται → when a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him | when good men are being dragged down, anyone with worthy credentials must feel their pain | when the noble are afflicted, those who all their lives have been deemed loyal must mourn
English (LSJ)
poet. aor.
A pray for, c. acc. θεσσάμενος γενεήν Hes.Fr. 201; γλυκερὸν νόστον Archil.11; παίδων γένος A.R.1.824, cf. Euph. 136: c. inf., τάν ποτ' εὔανδρον [εἶναι] . . θέσσαντο prayed that this land might be... Pi.N.5.10 (Hsch. also has θέσσεσθαι, θεσσόμενος, θήσω, θησόμενοι, θησάμενοι):—hence Adj. θεστός, only in compds. ἀπόθεστος, πολύθεστος (q.v.), Boeot. pr. n. Θεόφειστος, Ion. Ἐρμόθεστος. (Perh. g[uglide]hedh-, cf. πόθος (fr. φόθος), OIr. -guidiu, Welsh gweddïo 'pray', Lith. gedėti 'mourn'; θήσω, θησόμενοι, θησάμενοι seem to be analogical formations.)
