ἵμερος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=[<b class="b3">ῑ], ὁ</b>, <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[longing]], [[yearning after]], c. gen. rei, σίτου . . περὶ φρένας ἵμερος αἱρεῖ <span class="bibl">Il.11.89</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">γόου ἵμερον ὦρσε</b> raised [in them] [[a yearning]] after tears, i.e. a desire of the soul to disburden itself in grief, <span class="bibl">23.14</span>; ὑφ' ἵμερος ὦρτο γόοιο <span class="bibl">Od.16.215</span>, etc.: with gen. obj. added, <b class="b3">πατρὸς ὑφ' ἵμερον ὦρσε γόοιο</b> [[for]] his father, <span class="bibl">4.113</span>; <b class="b3">ἵμερον ἔχειν</b>, = [[ἱμείρεσθαι]], c. inf., <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.106</span>,<span class="bibl">7.43</span>; ἵμερος ἔχει με . . ἰδεῖν <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>1725</span> (lyr.), cf. <span class="bibl">Sapph.<span class="title">Supp.</span>24.11</span>; ἵ. ἐπείρεσθαί μοι ἐπῆλθέ <span class="bibl">Hdt.1.30</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">9.3</span>; [[τῶν]] (sc. [[δενδρέων]]) γλυκὺς ἵ. ἔσχεν . . φυτεῦσαι <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>3.33</span>: in pl., <b class="b3">πολλοὶ γὰρ εἰς ἓν ξυμπίτνουσιν ἵ</b>. various [[impulses]] or [[emotions]], <span class="bibl">A. <span class="title">Ch.</span>299</span>, cf. Phld.<span class="title">Ir.</span>p.37 W., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Piet.</span>20</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> abs., [[desire]], [[love]], ὥς σεο νῦν ἔραμαι καί με γλυκὺς ἵ. αἱρεῖ <span class="bibl">Il.3.446</span>; <b class="b3">δὸς νῦν μοι φιλότητα καὶ ἵ</b>. <span class="bibl">14.198</span>; δαμέντα φρένας ἱμέρῳ <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>1.41</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Sapph.<span class="title">Supp.</span>25.16</span>; ἱμέρῳ πεπληγμένος <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ag.</span>544</span>; ἱμέρου νικώμενος <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Supp.</span>1005</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Pr.</span>649</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>476</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ra.</span>59</span>; <b class="b3">βλεφάρων ἵ</b>. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>796</span>(lyr.). </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> personified, <b class="b3">Χάριτές τε καὶ Ἵ</b>. <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Th.</span>64</span>; Ἔρως . . χαρίτων, ἱμέρου, πόθου πατήρ <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Smp.</span>197d</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">DDeor.</span>20.15</span>, <span class="bibl">Nonn.<span class="title">D.</span>1.68</span>, al. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> as Adj., only in neut. as Adv., ἵμερον αὐλήσαντι <span class="title">AP</span>9.266 (Antip.); <b class="b3">ἵμερα μελίζεσθαι, δακρῦσαι</b>, ib.7.30 (Antip. Sid.), 364 (Marc. Arg.).— Poet., exc. in Pl. and Ion. and later Prose, as Hdt. ll. cc., Hp.Aër. 22, Phld. ll. cc., <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Acad.Ind.</span>p.56M.</span> (Sts. derived fr. <b class="b2">is-mero-</b>, cf. Skt. [[iṣṭás]] 'desired', [[iṣmás]] 'god of love', but Aeol. texts have <b class="b3">ἴμερος, ἰμέρρω</b>, never <b class="b3">ἰμμ-</b>; cf. <b class="b3">ἡμερτόν· ἐπέραστον</b>, Hsch. (s.v.l.).)</span>