A.“εὔξομαι” Ar.Av. 622 (anap.), etc.: aor. 1 εὐξάμην (Att. ηὐ-) Il.8.254, etc.: 2sg. subj. “εὔξεαι” Od.3.45: (augm. ηὐ- only Att.acc. to Hdn.Gr.2.789, Moer.175): —pray, “θεοῖς” Il.3.296, Hdt.8.64, Th.3.58, etc.; “ἀγάλμασι” Heraclit.5; “ἀνέμοισι” Hdt.7.178; “Ἀργείοισι” A.Supp.980: c.acc. cogn., “εὐχὰς εὔ. τοῖς θεοῖς” D.19.130; εὐχὰς ὑπέρ τινος πρὸς τοὺς θεοὺς εὔ. Aeschin.3.18; εὔ. ἔπος to utter it in prayer, Simon.37.19, Pi.P.3.2, A.Supp.1059 (lyr.); μεγάλα, μέγα εὔ., pray aloud, Il.3.275, Od.17.239; “πολλὰ Ποσειδάωνι” 3.54: later, c.acc., Ἄρτεμιν εὔ. AP9.268 (Antip. Thess.): abs., Il.7.298, A.Ch.465 (lyr.), Ar.Fr.39 D. (lyr.), etc.
2. c. acc. et inf., pray that, Od.15.353, 21.211, Hdt.1.31; of an unrealizable wish (cf. “εὐχή” 2), Arist.EN1118a32, cf. Macho ap.Ath.8.341d: c. inf. alone, “εὔ. θάνατον φυγεῖν” Il.2.401; τί δοκέεις εὔχεσθαι ἄλλο ἢ . . λαβεῖν; Hdt.1.27; “οἶκον ἰδεῖν” Pi.P.4.293, etc.; τοῖς θεοῖς c. acc. et inf., Pl.Phd.117c; also εὔ. τοὺς θεοὺς δοῦναί μοι pray that the gods may give, Ar.Th.351, X.An.6.1.26; “πρὸς τοὺς θεοὺς διδόναι” Id.Mem.1.3.2; “ταῖς Μούσαις εἰπεῖν” Pl.R.545d, etc.; later εὔ. ἵνα Aristeas 45, D.H.9.53, Arr.Epict.2.6.12; “ὅπως” Wien.Stud.44.159.
3. c. acc. obj., pray for, long or wish for, “χρυσόν” Pi.N.8.37, etc.; “εὐχόμενος ἄν τις ταῦτα εὔξαιτο” Antipho 6.1; εὔ. τινί τι pray for something for a person, S.Ph.1019; “κακόν τινι” Lys.21.21; also, pray for a thing from . . , “τοῖς θεοῖς πολλὰ ἀγαθὰ ὑπέρ τινος” X.Mem.2.2.10; τοῖς θεοῖς πολυκαρπίαν ib.3.14.3; “δεινὸν κατά τινος” Luc.Abd.32.
II. vow or promise to do . . , c. fut. inf., “εὔχομαι ἐξελάαν κύνας” Il.8.526; “θεοῖσι . . ἑκατόμβας ῥέξειν” Od.17.50, cf. Il.4.101, Pl.Phd.58b, IG12.108.55, 22.112.6 (iv B.C.): c. aor. inf., εὔχετο πάντ᾽ ἀποδοῦναι claimed (the right) to pay in full, Il.18.499 (unless in signf. 111.3): c. pres.inf., ηὔξω θεοῖς . . ἂν ὧδ᾽ ἔρδειν τάδε; A.Ag.933, cf. S.Ph.1032 codd.
2. c. acc. rei, vow a thing, “πολλῶν πατησμὸν εἱμάτων” A.Ag.963; “ἱερεῖον” Ar.Av.1619; [“λύχνον] περὶ παιδός” Call.Epigr.56.3.
3. εὔ. κατά τινος of the thing vowed (as though on the altar), “εὔ. τοῖς θεοῖς κατὰ ἑκατόμβης” Plu.Mar.26, cf. 2.294b; “κατὰ νικητηρίων” D.Ep.1.16.
III. profess loudly, boast, vaunt, “οὕτω φησὶ καὶ εὔχεται, οὕνεκ᾽ Ἀχιλλεὺς νηυσὶν ἔπι γλαφυρῇσι μένει” Il.14.366; “εὑρεῖν” Emp. 2.6: mostly, not of empty boasting, but of something of which one has a right to be proud, “ταύτης τοι γενεῆς τε καὶ αἵματος εὔχομαι εἶναι” Il.6.211, cf. 8.190; “πατρὸς δ᾽ ἐξ ἀγαθοῦ καὶ ἐγὼ γένος εὔχομαι εἶναι” 14.113, cf. Pl.Grg.449a: rarely without inf., ἐκ Κρητάων γένος εὔχομαι (sc. εἶναι) Od.14.199; “τὸ πατρόθεν ἐκ Διὸς εὔχονται” Pi.O.7.23, cf.P. 4.97; πόρτις εὔχεται βοός (sc. εἶναι) A.Supp.314; “ἔνθεν εὔχομαι γένος” E.Fr.696; but also,
3. simply, profess or declare, “ἱκέτης δέ τοι εὔ. εἶναι” Od.5.450; “οὔτ᾽ ὦν ἀκοῦσαι οὔτ᾽ ἰδεῖν εὔχοντο” Pi.O.6.53; τίς χθὼν εὔχεται ἥδε [εἶναι]; A.R.4.1251; cf. supr.11.1.
IV. Pass., ἐμοὶ μετρίως ηὖκται I have prayed sufficiently, Pl.Phdr.279c: pf.inf., “ταῦτα μὲν ηὖχθαι” IG22.112.12 (iv B.C.); ἡ πανήγυρις ἡ . . εὐχθεῖσα vowed, D.C.48.32: but plpf. (or non-thematic preterite) ηὔγμην in act. sense, S.Tr.610; so “εὖκτο” Thebaïs Fr.3. (Cf. Skt. óhate 'to (be able to) boast that one is', 'to brag', Avest. aog- 'declare solemnly'.)
