A.“αἴτεον” Hdt.: fut. αἰτήσω: aor. ᾔτησα: pf. “ᾔτηκα” 1 Ep.Jo.5.15: plpf. “ᾐτήκει” Arr.An.6.15.5: pf. Pass. ᾔτημαι, etc.:—ask, beg, abs., Od.18.49, A.Supp.341.
2. mostly c. acc. rei, ask for, demand, Il.5.358, Od.17.365, etc.; ὁδὸν αἰ. ask leave to depart, Od.10.17; αἰ. τινί τι to ask something for one, 20.74, Hdt.5.17: c. acc. pers. et rei, ask a person for a thing, Il.22.295, Od.2.387, Hdt.3.1, etc.; δίκας αἰ. τινὰ φόνου to demand satisfaction from one for . . , Hdt.8.114; “αἰ. τι πρός τινος” Thgn.556; “παρά τινος” X.An.1.3.16; “τὰ αἰτήματα ἃ ἠ̔τήκαμεν παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ” 1 Ep.Jo.5.15.
3. c. acc. pers. et inf., ask one to do, Od.3.173, S.OC1334, Ant.65, etc.; “αἰ. παρά τινος δοῦναι” Pl.Erx. 398e.
4. c. acc. only, beg of, D.L.6.49.
5. in Logic, postulate, assume, Arist.APr.41b9 (Pass.), Top.163a6, etc.
II. Med., ask for one's own use, claim, “Λύσανδρον ἄρχοντα” Lys.12.59; freq. almost = the Act., and with the same construct., first in Hdt.1.90 (παρ-), 9.34, A.Pr.822, etc.; αἰτεῖσθαί τινα ὅπως . . Antiphol.12 codd.; “πάλαισμα μἠποτε λῦσαι θεὸν αἰτοῦμαι” S.OT880; freq. abs. in part., “αἰτουμένψ μοι δός” A.Ch.480, cf. 2, Th.260, S.Ph.63; “αἰτουμένη που τεύξεται” Id.Ant.778; “αἰτησάμενος ἐχρήσατο” Lys.19.27; “οὐ πῦρ γὰρ αἰτῶν, οὐδὲ λοπάδ᾽ αἰτούμενος” Men.476; αἰτεῖσθαι ὑπέρ τινος to beg for one, Lys. 14.22.
III. Pass., of persons, have a thing begged of one, “αἰτηθέντες χρήματα” Hdt.8.111, cf. Th.2.97, etc.; “αἰτεύμενος” Theoc.14.63: c. inf., to be asked to do a thing, Pi.I.8(7).5.
