A.“δεήσω” Pl.R.395e: aor. “ἐδέησα” Lys. 30.8, Ep. δῆσα only Il.18.100: pf. “δεδέηκα” Pl.Plt.277d:—Med., fut. “δεήσομαι” Th.1.32, etc., Dor. “δεοῦμαι” Epich.120; later “-ηθήσομαι” LXX Jb.5.8, Plu.2.213c, etc.: aor. “ἐδεήθην” Hdt.4.84, Ar.Pl.986, etc.: pf. “δεδέημαι” X.An.7.7.14, Is.8.22 (the forms δεήσω, etc., compared with the Ep. ἐδεύησα, δεύομαι, point to [ροοτ ]δεϝ):—lack, miss, stand in need of, c. gen., “ἐμεῖο δὲ δῆσε . . ἀλκτῆρα γενέσθαι” Il. l.c. (elsewh. Hom. uses δεύω, q.v.); “παραδείγματος τὸ παράδειγμα αὐτὸ δεδέηκεν” Pl. Plt.277d, cf. X.Mem.4.2.10.
2. freq. in Att., πολλοῦ δέω I want much, i.e. am far from, mostly c. inf. pres., πολλοῦ δ. ἀπολογεῖσθαι I am far from defending myself, Pl.Ap.30d; “πολλοῦ δεῖς εἰπεῖν” Id.Men.79b; “π. δ. ἀγνοεῖν” Id.Ly.204e; “π. γε δέουσι μαίνεσθαι” Id.Men.92a; also “μικροῦ ἔδεον ἐν χερσὶν εἶναι” X.HG4.6.11, cf. Men. Georg.25; “τοσούτου δέω ἱκανὸς εἶναι λέγειν ὥστε . .” Lys.17.1; “τοσούτου δέουσι μιμεῖσθαι” Isoc.14.17 (also “τοσοῦτον δέω εἰδέναι” Pl.Men. 71a); παρὰ μικρὸν ἐδέησα ἀποθανεῖν v.l. in Isoc.17.42; simply “ἐδέησα κινδύνῳ περιπεσεῖν” Alciphr.3.5: abs., πολλοῦ γε δέω I am far from it, Pl.Phdr.228a; “τοῦ παντὸς δέω” A.Pr.1006; “παντὸς δεῖ τοιοῦτος εἶναι” Pl.Sph.221d (impers. πολλοῦ δεῖ, etc., v. δεῖ 11.1. b): in part., “παλαστῆς δεόντων τεττάρων ποδῶν” IG12.373.8; “μικροῦ δέοντα τέτταρα τάλαντα” D.27.35; the part. is freq. used to express numerals compounded with 8 or 9, “ἀνδράσιν ἑνὸς δέουσι τριάκοντα” IG12.374.413; δυοῖν δέοντα τεσσεράκοντα forty lacking two, thirty-eight, Hdt.1.14; “πεντήκοντα δυοῖν δέοντα ἔτη” Th.2.2; ἑνὸς δέον εἰκοστὸν ἔτος the 20th year save one, the 19th, Id.8.6; “δυοῖν δεούσαις εἴκοσι ναυσίν” X.HG1.1.5: later, the inf. stands abs., περὶ τὰ ἑνὸς δεῖν πεντήκοντα fifty save one, Arist.Rh.1390b11: part. in gen., “τροφαλίδες μιᾶς δεούσης εἴκοσιν” Id.HA522a31; “πόλεων δυοῖν δεούσαιν ἑξήκοντα” D.L.5.27; “ἑξήκοντα ἑνὸς δέοντος ἔτη” Plu.Pomp.79.
3. part. δέων, δέουσα, as Adj., fit, proper, “ὁ καιρὸς οὐκ ἔστι χρόνος δέων” Arist. APr.48b36; “τοῖς δέουσι χρόνοις” IG12(3).247.11 (Anaphe); ἡ δέουσα ἑκάστων χρῆσις Hierocl.p.61 A., etc.: esp.freq.in neut., v. δέον.
4. δεῖ impers., v. h. v.
II. Dep. δέομαι : contr. “δῆσθε” Sophr.46, part. “δεύμενος” Id.36: fut. “δεήσομαι” Pl.Phlb.53b: aor. ἐδεήθην: always personal, and used by Hom. only in form δεύομαι (v. δεύω B):
1. abs., to be in want or need, require, mostly in part., “κάρτα δεόμενος” Hdt.8.59; οἱ δεόμενοι the needy, opp. οἱ κεκτημένοι τὰς οὐσίας, Isoc. 6.67.
b. stand in need of, want, c. gen., Hdt.1.36, etc.; “τὰ σὰ δεῖται κολαστοῦ . . ἔπη” S.OT1148; ῥώμης τινὸς δ. ib.1293; οὐδὲν δεῖσθαι τροφῆς have no need of . ., Th.8.43; ἤν τι δέωνται βασιλέως if they have any need of him, ib.37: c. inf., “τοῦτο ἔτι δέομαι μαθεῖν” Pl.R. 392d, cf. Euthd.275d, etc.; τὰ πράττεσθαι δεόμενα things needing to be done, X.Cyr.2.3.3; “τὰ δεόμενα” necessaries, IG2.573.4; ἐπισκευάσαι τὰ δεόμενα parts needing repair, ib.22.1176.15; “τὸ δεόμενον” the point threatened, Plb.15.15.7; δεῖται impers., v. δεῖ.
2. beg a thing from a person, c. dupl. gen. rei et pers., “τῶν ἐδέετο σφέων” Hdt. 3.157, cf. Th.1.32, etc.; “μή μου δεηθῇς. ΘΗ. πράγματος ποίου;” S.OC 1170: freq. with neut. Pron. in acc., “τοῦτο ὑμῶν δέομαι” Pl.Ap.17c, cf. Smp.173e, etc.: c. acc. cogn., δέημα, or oftener δέησιν, δεῖσθαί τινος, Ar.Ach.1059, Aeschin.2.43, etc.: also c. acc. rei only, ξύμφορα “δ.” Th.1.32; “δυνατά τινος” Pl.Prt.335e; “δίκαια καὶ μέτρια ὑμῶν” D.38.2; “διαπράξωμαι ἃ δέομαι” X.An.2.3.29: with gen. pers. only, δεηθεὶς ὑμῶν having begged a favour of you, D.21.108: c.gen.pers. et inf., “ἐδέετο τοῦ δήμου φυλακῆς πρὸς αὐτοῦ κυρῆσαι” Hdt.1.59, cf. Pl.Prt.336a, etc.; “δ. τινὸς ὥστε . .” Th.1.119; “ὅπως . .” Plu.Ant.84: rarely c. acc. pers., “ἐδέοντο Βοιωτοὺς ὅπως παραδώσουσι” Th.5.36: parenthetic, “δέομαι” I pray, LXXGe.44.18.
