beseech
From LSJ
σοὶ μὲν παιδιὰν τοῦτ' εἶναι, ἐμοὶ δὲ θάνατον → This is sport to you but death to me (Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 1243a20)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
verb transitive
P. and V. αἰτεῖν (or mid.), παραιτεῖσθαι. ἱκετεύεις δεῖσθαι (gen.), λιπαρεῖν, Ar. and P. ἀντιβολεῖν, V. λίσσεσθαι, ἀντιάζειν, προσπίτνειν, προστρέπειν, προστρέπεσθαι, ἱκνεῖσθαι, ἐξικετεύειν. Ar. and V. ἄντεσθαι.
ask for: P. and V. παραιτεῖσθαι (acc.), προσαιτεῖν (acc.), V. ἐπαιτεῖν (acc.).