ἔλπω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=([[ἐέλπω]] only [[Hesychius Lexicographus|Hsch.]]<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[sub verbo|s.v.]] [[ἐέλποιμεν]]), causal, only found in pres. (exc. ἔλπεον· ἤλπιζον, Id.), [[cause to hope]], <b class="b3">πάντας μὲν ἔλπει</b> she [[feeds]] all [[with hope]], Od.2.91, 13.380; perhaps also, [[cause to expect]], Max.178 (but may, = [[expect]]).<br><span class="bld">II</span> elsewhere in Med., ἔλπομαι, Ep. [[ἐέλπομαι]], ἠλπόμην Od.9.419, Alc.''Supp.''22.8, Pi.''P.''4.243, etc.: Ep. 3sg. impf. [[ἔλπετο]] and <b class="b3">ἐέλπ-</b>, 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]] ([[quod vide|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: sometimes the inf. must be supplied, <b class="b3">ἐκτελέσας μέγα ἔργον ὃ οὔ ποτε ἔλπετο θυμῷ</b> (''[[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.<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[expect anxiously]], [[fear]], <b class="b3">ἐλπόμενός τί οἱ κακὸν εἶναι</b> [[having a foreboding that]]... Hdt.9.113.<br><span class="bld">3</span> 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; <b class="b3">ἔλπετο γὰρ κατὰ θυμὸν.. ἑταίρους.. ἰέναι</b> (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, ''AP''5.115 (Marc. Arg.); λάσην Alc. [[l.c.]] (<b class="b3">ϝελπ-, ἐϝέλπομαι, ϝέϝολπα</b>, cf. Lat. [[volup]].)