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μήδομαι , Il.2.360, etc.: impf.
A.“ἐμήδετο” h.Merc.46; Ep. μήδετο (v. infr.): fut. “μήσομαι” S.Tr.973 (lyr.), E.HF1075 (lyr.); Ep. 2sg. “μήσεαι” Od.11.474: aor. ἐμήσατο, μήσατο (v. infr.), also “μῆστο” Hsch.: pf. μέμηδα cj. for “μέμηλα” h.Merc.437: (μέδω, μῆδος):—to be minded, intend, αὐτός τ᾽ εὖ μήδεο resolve well thyself, Il.2.360; ἅσσ᾽ ἂν ἐμοί περ αὐτῇ μηδοίμην what counsels I should take for myself, Od.5.189.
2. c. acc. rei, plan and do cunningly or skilfully, plot, contrive, in Ep. mostly in bad sense, “σφιν κακὰ μήδετο μητίετα Ζεύς” Il.7.478; “μοι Ζεὺς μήσατο λυγρὸν ὄλεθρον” Od.24.96; “Αἴγισθος ἐμήσατο λ. ὄ.” 3.194; “φρεσὶ μήδετο θέσκελα ἔργα” Hes.Sc.34; “πατρὸς μεγάλ᾽ ἀνδράσι μηδομένοιο” Id.Fr.96.85: also c. acc. pers. et rei, κακὰ μήσατ᾽ Ἀχαιούς he wrought them mischief, Il.10.52, cf. 22.395, 23.24, Od.24.426: in Lyr. and Trag. (usu. lyr.), “μέγα ἔργον μ.” Pi.N.10.64; “δίκας ἀδίκοισι” B.17.42; “πρὸς κακοῖς κακὰ μήσεται” E.HF1075, cf. Ph.799, A. Ch.605; ἐπ᾽ ἀνδρὶ τοῦτ᾽ ἐμήσατο στύγος ib.991, cf. S.Ph.1114.
3. after Hom., simply, contrive, invent, “ἄρτια” Pi.O.6.94; “τέχνας καὶ πόρους” A.Pr.477; “ἄφθιτα” Ar.Av.689 (lyr.); “ὅσια καὶ νόμιμα” Id.Th. 676 (lyr.); “ὑμῖν κῦδος . . ἐμήσατο Χῖος ἀοιδός” Theoc.22.218; τί δὲ μήσωμαι; what shall I attempt? A.Th.1062, cf. S.Tr.973; τί σοι μήσομαι; E.Hipp.592; make skilfully, “μέλισσα μέλι μηδομένα” Simon.47: c. acc. et inf., contrive that a thing should be, “ἄπιστον ἐμήσατο πιστὸν ἔμμεναι” Pi.O.1.31.
II. take care, keep watch, ib.106, so prob. in Hes.Fr.96.76.—Poet. word, used twice by Ar. (lyr.), Trag. only in lyr. exc. A.Pr.l.c., and in late Prose, Luc.Astr.6, 21.
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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