δεψέω

From LSJ

Ἀλλ' ὑπ' ἐλπίδων ἄνδρας τὸ κέρδος πολλάκις διώλεσεν → But the profit-motive has destroyed many people in their hope for gain

Sophocles, Antigone, 221-2

German (Pape)

[Seite 555] erweichen, kneten; Nebenform von δέψω, δέφω, Latein. depso; einmal bei Homer, Odyss. 12. 48 ἐπὶ δ' οὔατ' ἀλεῖψαι ἑταίρων κηρὸν δεψήσας; Apollon. Lex. Homer. p. 58, 3 δεψῆσαι· μαλάξαι. Composita bei Homer nicht, aber ἀδέψητος.