ἔλπω
μηδέν' ὀλβίζειν, πρὶν ἂν τέρμα τοῦ βίου περάσῃ μηδὲν ἀλγεινὸν παθών → Count no man blessed 'til he's passed the endpoint of his life without grievous suffering. (Sophocles, King Oedipus 1529f.)
English (LSJ)
(ἐέλπω only Hsch.
A s.v. ἐέλποιμεν), causal, only found in pres. (exc. ἔλπεον· ἤλπιζον, Id.), cause to hope, πάντας μὲν ἔλπει she feeds all with hope, Od.2.91, 13.380; perh. also, cause to expect, Max.178 (but may, = expect). II elsewh. in Med., ἔλπομαι, Ep. ἐέλπομαι, ἠλπόμην Od.9.419, Alc.Supp.22.8, Pi.P.4.243, etc.: Ep. 3sg. impf. ἔλπετο and ἐέλπ-, Od.3.275, Il.12.407 (ἔλπετο also in Luc.Syr.D.22): pf. ἔολπα Il.22.216, Od.5.379, Hes.Op.[273], A.R.2.147, etc.: 3sg. plpf. ἐώλπει Il.19.328, Od.20.328, A.R.3.370, Theoc.25.115:—hope or expect, Ep., Lyr., Ion. (not in Hp.) for Att. ἐλπίζω (q.v.):— Constr., like ἐλπίζω: c. acc. and fut. inf., Il.13.8, B.Fr.12: c. aor. inf., Il.7.199, Pi.P.4.243 codd., N.4.92: c. pf. inf., Il.15.110: sts. the inf. must be supplied, ἐκτελέσας μέγα ἔργον ὃ οὔ ποτε ἔλπετο θυμῷ (sc. ἐκτελέειν) Od.3.275: c. acc. rei, Il.13.609, 15.539; ἅσσα οὐκ ἔλπονται Heraclit.27: later, c. gen. rei, πολυγλαγέος ἐνιαυτοῦ Arat.1100: ὡς... dub. l. in Orph.A.846: abs., Heraclit.18: Homeric phrases, ἔλπετο θυμῷ Il.17.404, al.; also μάλα δέ σφισιν ἔλπετο θυμός 17.495; ἔλπετο θυμὸς ἐνὶ στήθεσσιν ἑκάστου 15.701; ἤλπετ' ἐνὶ φρεσί Od.9.419. 2 expect anxiously, fear, ἐλπόμενός τί οἱ κακὸν εἶναι having a foreboding that... Hdt.9.113. 3 generally, deem, suppose, οὔ ποθι ἔλπομαι οὕτως δεύεσθαι πολέμοιο . . Ἀχαιούς Il.13.309, cf. Theoc. 7.31; ἐπὴν ἡμέας ἔλπῃ ποτὶ δώματ' ἀφῖχθαι Od.6.297, cf. 23.345; ἔλπετο γὰρ κατὰ θυμὸν . . ἑταίρους . . ἰέναι (pres. inf.) Il.10.355; οὐ γὰρ ὅ γ' ἀθανάτων τιν' ἐέλπετο . . Τρώεσσιν ἀρηξέμεν Il.13.8, cf. 7.199, 15.110, Orac. ap. Hdt.1.65, AP5.115 (Marc. Arg.); λάσην Alc. l.c. (ϝελπ-, ἐϝέλπομαι, ϝέϝολπα, cf. Lat. volup.)
