A.“πεπάσμην” Il.24.642, elsewh. in Hom. only aor. :—eat, c. acc., “σπλάγχν᾽ ἐπάσαντο” Il.1.464, etc. ; “πασάμην Δημήτερος ἀκτήν” 21.76 ; also, of drink, “νέκταρ ἐπάσαντο” Hes. Th.642 ; “ταύρου νέον αἷμα πάσηται” Nic.Al. 312 : more freq. c. gen. partit., eat of, partake of, “σίτοιό τ᾽ ἐπασσάμεθ᾽ ἠδὲ ποτῆτος” Od.9.87 ; “δείπνου πασσάμενος” 1.124 ; “πάσσασθαι ἐδητύος ἠδὲ ποτῆτος” 10.384, etc. ; so always in Hdt., 1.73, al. : rarely abs., eat, taste food, “πάρος γε μὲν οὔ τι πεπάσμην” Il.24.642. — Ep. and Ion. word, twice in A., “τούτου σάρκας . . λύκοι πάσονται” Th. 1041 ; τί κακὸν . . ἐδανὸν ἢ ποτὸν πασαμένα . . ; Ag. 1408 (lyr.) ; once in S., “ἠθέλησε δ᾽ αἵματος κοινοῦ πάσασθαι” Ant.202 ; twice in Ar., in mock heroic lines, Pax1092, 1281. —Act. form πατέω only in Orion 162.20. (Cf. Skt. pitús 'food', Lat. pasco, Goth. fōdjan 'feed', etc.)
πα^τέομαι , Hdt.2.47, Call.Fr.437, Agathocl.Fr.Hist.6, etc. : fut. πάσομαι [α^] A.Th.1041 : aor. ἐπα^σάμην, Ep. also ἐπασσάμην (v. infr.) : plpf.
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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