A.“ποθήμεναι” Od.12.110: Ep. impf. “πόθεον” Il.2.726, etc.; also “ποθέεσκον” 1.492, Call.in PSI9.1092.51: fut. “ποθήσω” X.Mem.3.11.3, Oec.8.10, (ἐπι-) Hdt.5.93; also “ποθέσομαι” Lys.8.18, Pl.Phd.98a: aor. ἐπόθεσα, Ep. πόθεσα, inf. ποθέσαι, Il.15.219, Od.2.375, 4.748, (προ-) Gal.Thras. 29; “ἐπόθησα” Pl.Men.84c, X.HG5.3.20, etc.; both forms in codd. of Hdt., “ἐπόθησε” 3.36, “ἐπόθεσαν” 9.22; ἐπόθεσα also in codd. of Isoc.4.122, 19.7: pf. “πεπόθηκα” AP11.417, S.E.M.11.139, etc.:— Med., S.Tr.103(lyr.):—Pass., pf. “πεπόθημαι” Orph.H.81.3, etc.: (cf. πόθος fin.):—long for, yearn after (what is absent), miss or regret (what is lost), “φθινύθεσκε . . αὖθι μένων, ποθέεσκε δ᾽ ἀϋτήν τε πτόλεμόν τε” Il.1.492; “πόθεόν γε μὲν ἀρχόν” 2.703; “τοίην γὰρ κεφαλὴν ποθέω” Od.1.343; “π. στρατιᾶς ὀφθαλμὸν ἐμᾶς” Pi.O.6.16, cf. Hdt.3.36, 9.22, etc.; “ἄνδρας πόλις ἥδε ποθεῖ” IG12.945.10; “ποθεῖν ποθοῦντα τήνδε γῆν στρατὸν λέγεις” A.Ag.545; “τὸν δ᾽ ἐμὸν δῆμον ποθῶν” Ar.Ach.33; “ποθεῖς τὸν οὐ παρόντα” Id.Pl.1127; αἱ κνῆμαι . . σου . . τὰς πέδας π. ib.276; ἡ χώρα αὐτὴ τὸ μὴ ὂν ποθήσει the place itself will miss what is absent, X.Oec.8.10; “π. τὰς ἐν τῇ νεότητι ἡδονάς” Pl.R.329a, cf. Ti.19a, And. 1.70:—Pass., S.Tr.632, etc.; ὦ ποθουμένη (sc. Εἰρήνη) Ar.Pax586; “ποθεῖκαὶ ποθεῖται” Pl.Phdr.255d.
2. of things, crave, require, “τί γὰρ π. τράπεζα;” E.Fr.467; “π. ἡ ἀπόκρισις ἐρώτησιν τοιάνδε” Pl.Smp.204d, cf. Prt.352a.
II. c. inf., to be anxious to do, E.Hec.1020, Antipho5.64, X.An.6.4.8; τὸ νοσοῦν ποθεῖ σε ξυμπαραστάτην λαβεῖν my sickness needs to take thee . . , S.Ph.675; ἆρα ἔτι ποθοῦμεν μὴ ἱκανῶς δεδεῖχθαι; do we still feel that it has not been satisfactorily proved? Pl.Lg. 896a:—Pass., ποθεῖται . . λεχθῆναι requires to be stated, Arist.EN1097b23.
III. abs., love with fond regret, “οἱ δὲ ποθεῦντες ἐν ἤματι γηράσκουσι” Theoc.12.2, cf. Luc.Im.22, etc.