A.“ἰαύεσκον” Od.9.184, Perdrizet-Lefebvre Graffītes Grecs du Memnonion d' Abydos 528: fut. “ἰαύσω” Lyc.101, 430: aor. 1 “ἴαυσα” Od.11.261, Call.Aet.3.1.2:—sleep, pass the night, “Ζηνὸς . . ἐν ἀγκοίνῃσιν ἰαύεις” Il.14.213, cf. Od.11.261; “ἀΰπνους νύκτας ἴαυον” Il.9.325, Od.19.340; of beasts, “ἔνθα δὲ πολλὰ μῆλ᾽ . . ἰαύεσκον” 9.184; “ἄρσενες ἐκτὸς ἴαυον” 14.16; “δεμνίοις δύστανος ἰαύων” E.Ph.1537 (lyr.): c. acc. cogn., ἐννυχίαν τέρψιν ἰαύειν enjoy the night's sleep, S.Aj.1204 (lyr.); ὑπασπίδιον κοῖτον ἰαύειν, of a soldier sleeping under arms, E. Rh.740 (anap.); “ὕπνον” Theoc.3.49, Call. l.c.
ἰαύω [ι^], poet. Verb, mostly used in pres. and impf. (Trag. only in lyr.): Ep. impf.
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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