- τρέω
- τρέω, Hom. (v. infr.), A.Th.790 (lyr.): [dialect] Ep. [tense] impf.A
τρέον Hes.Sc. 213
, [ per.] 2dual τρεέτην ib. 171: [tense] aor.ἔτρεσα Il.11.745
, [dialect] Ep.τρέσσα 17.603
: later [dialect] Ep. [tense] pres. [full] τρείω Opp.C.1.417, ([etym.] ὑπο-) Timo 58.4:—this Verb is never contracted, except when the contraction is into ει:— flee from fear, flee away (Aristarch. held this to be the usual meaning in Homer),τρεῖν μ' οὐκ ἐᾷ Παλλάς Il.5.256
;μήτε . . τρέε μήτε τι τάρβει 21.288
;τρέσσε δὲ παπτήνας 11.546
, 17.603; τρεῖτ' ἄσπετον ib.332: the sense of fleeing is most apparent in the phrasesἔτρεσαν ἄλλυδις ἄλλος 11.745
,τρέσσαν δ' ἄλλυδις ἄλλη Od.6.138
,τ. τεῖχος ὕπο Il.22.143
;τρεέτην Hes.Sc.171
;μὴ τρέσητε A.Supp.711
; μὴ τρέσας without fear, Id.Th.436;οὐδὲν τρέσας Pl.Phd.117b
; but,2 τρέσας (cf.ἀνδρῶν τρεσσάντων Il.14.522
, Tyrt.11.14) was a technical term at Sparta, and sts. used where we might say runaway, coward,ὁ τρέσας Ἀριστόδημος Hdt.7.231
, cf. Tyrt.l.c., AP7.230 (Eryc.);οἱ ἐν τῇ μάχῃ καταδειλιάσαντες, οὓς αὐτοὶ τρέσαντας ὀνομάζουσι Plu.Ages.30
, cf. Lyc. 21, 2.191c, etc.:—and later a real Subst. was used in Com., [full] τρεσᾶς, τρεσᾶ, acc. τρεσᾶν, Eust.772.12, cf. Gramm. ap. Gaisford Choeroboscus1p.43.3 in Argive Prose, like [dialect] Att. φεύγω, to be banished,τρἐτο ¯ καὶ δαμευέσσθο ¯ IG4.554
(vi/v B. C.).II trans., fear, dread, be afraid of, c. acc., Il.11.554, Pi.Pae.4.40, A.Th.397, Ag.549, al., S. Ant.1042, E.Ph.1077;ἄρκτον . . οὐκ ἔτρεσεν X.An.1.9.6
:—so also c. gen., κελάδοιο, δηϊοτῆτος, Hes.Th.850: τ. μὴ . . A.Th.790 (lyr.).— Rare in Prose. (Cf. Skt. trásati 'to be terrified', Gr. ἄτρεστος.)
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