κύω: Difference between revisions

|Definition=post-Hom. form of [[κυέω]] (aor. 1 in Ep., v. infr. ''ΙΙ''):<br><span class="bld">I</span> in pres. and impf., of females, [[conceive]], <b class="b3">Λάβδα κύει τέξει δὲ κτλ</b>. Orac. ap. [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]5.92.β, cf. Ar.''Fr.''609, Pl.''Lg.''789e, etc.; κύω μῆνα ὄγδοον ἤδη Luc.''DMeretr.''2.1; κ. ἀπό τινος Id.''Gall.''19: metaph., κύει [[πόλις]] ἥδε Thgn.39.<br><span class="bld">2</span> rarely c.acc., to [[be pregnant with]], οὐδὲ κύουσι πολλὰ κυήματα [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]''543b22; παιδίον Luc.''DMeretr.''2.4: metaph., <b class="b3">ἡ ψυχή μου ἀεὶ τοῦτο κύουσα</b> (al. [[κυοῦσα]]) διῆγεν [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''5.4.35:—Pass., to [[be borne in the womb]], τὰ κυόμενα παιδία Arist.''Pr.''860a21, Jul.''Or.''2.99c.<br><span class="bld">II</span> in aor. Act. ἔκῡσα, causal, of the male, [[impregnate]], metaph., ὄμβρος ἔκυσε γαῖαν A.''Fr.''44.4:—aor. Med. ἐκῡσάμην, of the female, [[conceive]], οὓς τέκε κυσαμένη Hes.''Th.''125, cf. 405, ''h.Hom.''1.4; [[Ζηνί]] by [[Zeus]], Asius ''Fr.Ep.''1.3 K.; ὅσσους… Τυφάονι κύσατο Κητώ Euph.112.—The forms [[κυέω]] and [[κύω]] seem synonymous, but [[κυέω]] ([[κυῶ]]) is the better-attested form in Att. Prose ([[κύοντα]] only [[varia lectio|v.l.]] in Pl. ''Tht.''151b, [[κύοντες]] is read in [[Aristotle|Arist.]]''[[Historia Animalium|HA]]''544a23 ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] [[κύονες]], [[ποιοῦντες]]) <b class="b3">, κύοντα</b> ib.585a3, κυόμενα ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] κυούμενα) ''Pr.''l.c., κυόμενον ([[varia lectio|v.l.]] κυούμενον) ''GA''730b4, but κυοῦντες ''HA''610b3; ἐκύομεν [[LXX]] [[ls]].59.13).—The pres. [[κύω]] has ῠ in verse, but forms of κῠέω can be restored by altering the accent.—The causal sense belongs only to the aor. ἔκῡσα.