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βόσκω , impf. ἔβοσκον, Ep.
A.“βόσκε” Il.15.548: fut. “-ήσω” Od.17.559, Ar.Ec.590: aor. “ἐβόσκησα” Gp.18.7: pf. “βεβόσκηκα” PMag.6.13 (iii B. C.):—Pass. and Med. (v. infr. 11); Ion. impf. “βοσκέσκοντο” Od.12.355: fut. βοσκήσομαι Sarap. in Plu.2.398d, Dor. “βοσκησεῦμαι” Theoc. 5.103: aor. “ἐβοσκήθην” Nic. Th.34, Babr.89.7.
I. prop. of herdsmen, feed, tend, “αἰπόλια” Od. 14.102; “ταὦς” Stratt.27; ὁ βόσκων the feeder, Arist.HA540a18.
2. generally, feed, nourish, βόσκει γαῖα “. . ἀνθρώπους” Od.11.365, cf. 14.325; “γαστέρα βοσκήσεις” 17.559; “πάντα βόσκουσαν φλόγα . . Ἡλίου” S.OT1425; maintain, keep, “ἐπικούρους” Hdt.6.39; “ναυτικόν” Th.7.48; “γυναῖκας” Ar.Lys.260; οἰκέτας ib.1204, Herod.7.44: metaph., “β. νόσον” S.Ph.313; πράγματα β. troubles, i.e. children, Ar.V.313.
II. Pass., of cattle, feed, graze, Od.21.49, etc.; “ξύλοχον κάτα” Il.5.162: c.acc., feed on, “ποίην” h.Merc.27,232, cf. A.Ag.118 (lyr.), Arist.HA591a16, al.; “τινί” A.Th.244.
2. metaph., to be fed or nurtured, “ἰυγμοῖσι” Id.Ch.26 (lyr.); “κούφοις πνεύμασιν” S.Aj. 558; “ἐλπίσιν” E.Ba.617; β. τινί or περί τι run riot in a thing, AP 5.271 (Paul. Sil.), prob. in 285 (Id.). (g[uglide]ō, cf. Lith. guotas 'herd'.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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