φειδέομαι

From LSJ

Εὐφήμει, ὦ ἄνθρωπε· ἁσμενέστατα μέντοι αὐτὸ ἀπέφυγον, ὥσπερ λυττῶντά τινα καὶ ἄγριον δεσπότην ἀποδράς → Hush, man, most gladly have I escaped this thing you talk of, as if I had run away from a raging and savage beast of a master

Source

German (Pape)

[Seite 1260] ion. statt φείδομαι, vgl. Valck. Her. 8, 10.