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|Definition=impf. <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> εἷρπον <span class="bibl">Od.12.395</span> codd., <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Cyc.</span>423</span>, etc., ἧρπον <span class="title">IG</span>4.951.86 (Epid.): Dor.fut. ἑρψῶ <span class="bibl">Theoc.5.45</span>, <span class="bibl">18.40</span>, Att. only in compd. [[ἐφέρψω]], later [[ἑρπύσω]] (διεξ-) <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mu.</span>398b33</span> : aor. [[ἧρψα]] (ἐξ-) <span class="bibl">LXX <span class="title">Ps.</span>104(105).30</span>; Att. εἵρπῠσα <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>272</span> : (cf. Lat. [[serpo]]):—[[move]] [[slowly]], [[walk]], ἥμενος ἤ ἕρπων <span class="bibl">Od.17.158</span>; ὅσσα τε γαῖανἔπι πνείει τε καὶ ἕρπει <span class="bibl">Il.17.447</span>; ἔργα ζωοῖσιν ἑρπόντεσσί θ' ὁμοῖα <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>7.52</span>; [[ἕρπον]] ([[εἷρπον]] codd.) ῥινοί [[began to move]], <span class="bibl">Od.12.395</span>; of infants, <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Th.</span>17</span>; of a lame man, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ph.</span>207</span> (lyr.); ἕ. ἐξ εὐνῆς <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span>552</span>; <b class="b3">ἕρπον τοῖς ὀδοῦσι θηρίον</b> an animal that [[walks]] on its teeth, <span class="title">Carm.Pop.</span>35. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> simply, [[go]], [[come]], in Dor. dialects, where the aor. is [[ἔμολον]], [[ἦνθον]], etc., εἰς τὸ ἱερόν <span class="title">IG</span>4.951.86 (Epid.), cf. <span class="title">GDI</span>5040.39 (Crete), <span class="title">BMus.Inscr.</span>968<span class="title">A</span>6 (Cos), etc., cf. [[καθέρπω]] : also freq. in Trag., <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pr.</span>810</span>, etc.; ἕρπεθ' ὡς τάχιστα <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OC</span>1643</span>; Θησεὺς ὅδ' ἕρπει <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">HF</span>1154</span>; <b class="b3">ἕρπειν ἐς μῦθον, πρὸς ᾠδάς</b>, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Hel.</span>316</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Cyc.</span>423</span>; <b class="b3">ἕρπε δεῦρο</b> [[come]] hither, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Andr.</span>722</span> : and c. acc. cogn., ἐξόδους ἕ. κενάς <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Aj.</span>287</span>; κέλευθον <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1223</span>; εὐθεῖαν ἕρπε τήνδε <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Fr.</span>195</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">b</span> of things, events, etc., ἕρπει ἄντα τῶ σιδάρω τὸ καλῶς κιθαρίσδην <span class="bibl">Alcm.35</span>; βότρυς ἐπ' ἦμαρ ἕρπει <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>255</span>; ἥβη ἕρπουσα πρόσω <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Tr.</span>547</span>; of a tear [[stealing]] from the eye, <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">El.</span>1231</span>; πρὸς τὸν ἔχονθ' ὁ φθόνος ἕρπει <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Aj.</span>157</span>; τὸ ἐς αὔριον αἰεὶ τυφλὸν ἕρπει <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Fr.</span>593</span>; <b class="b3">τοῦτο γὰρ ἀθάνατον φωνᾶεν ἕρπει</b> this (word) [[go]]es [[forth]] [[undying]], <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">I.</span>4(3).40</span>; <b class="b3">ὁ πόλεμος ἑρπέτω</b> [[let]] it [[take its course]], <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>673</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Lys.</span>129</span>; of [[coming]] events, εἰ δὲ δαίμων γενέθλιος ἕρποι <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">O.</span>13.105</span>, cf. <span class="bibl"><span class="title">N.</span>4.43</span>, <span class="bibl">7.68</span>; of calamities, [[come suddenly]] on one, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Ant.</span>585</span>,<span class="bibl">618</span> (both lyr.), <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Aj.</span>1087</span>.</span>