τετίημαι

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ἐν πίθῳ ἡ κεραμεία γιγνομένη → trying to run before you can walk, the potter's art starting on a big jar

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Transliteration A: tetíēmai Transliteration B: tetiēmai Transliteration C: tetiimai Beta Code: teti/hmai

English (LSJ)

[ῐ], an Ep. perf. with no pres. in use,

   A to be sorrowful, τετίησθον Il.8.447; elsewh. Hom. always uses part., in the phrase τετιημένος, τετιημένη ἦτορ, Il.11.556, Od.4.804, al., cf. Hes.Th. 163.--We also find the Act. pf. part. τετῐηώς (in same sense) mostly in the phrase τετιηότι θυμῷ, with sorrowing heart, Il.11.555, 17.664, 24.283; also ἷζον τετιηότες 9.13; δὴν δ' ἄνεῳ ἦσαν τετιηότες they were long silent from grief, ib.30,695. (Perh. cogn. with Lat. quies.)