A.“ἁμαρτήσομαι” Od.9.512, Th.4.55, etc.; later “-ήσω” Ev.Matt.18.21, D.C.59.20, Gal.7.653, (δι-) Hp.Praec.9, (ἐξ-) Id.Acut. (Sp.)13: aor. 2 “ἥμαρτον” Thgn., Pi., Att.; Ep. ἤμβροτον, but only ind.; Aeol. 3sg. “ἄμβροτε” Sapph.Supp.1.5, inf. “ἀμβρότην” IG12(2).1.15 (Mytilene); opt. ἁμάρτοιν (for ἁμάρτοιμι) Cratin.55 (dub.): aor. 1 “ἡμάρτησα” Emp.115.4 (dub.), AP7.339 (Pall. or Luc.), D.S.2.14: pf. “ἡμάρτηκα” Hdt.9.79, Ar.Pl.961, etc., Att.:—Pass., aor. “ἡμαρτήθην” Th.2.65, X.Vect.4.37: pf. “ἡμάρτημαι” S.OC439, Antipho 5.77, etc.: plpf. “ἡμάρτητο” Th.7.18, Lys.31.20:—miss the mark, esp. of spear thrown, abs., Il.5.287, etc.; “ἔρριψεν, οὐδ᾽ ἥμαρτε” A. Fr.80: c. gen., “φωτὸς ἁ.” Il.10.372; also “τῶν μεγάλων ψυχῶν ἱεὶς οὐκ ἂν ἁμάρτοις” S.Aj.155; ἁ. τῆς ὁδοῦ miss road, Ar.Pl.961; “τοῦ σκοποῦ” Antipho 3.4.5.
2. generally, fail of one's purpose, go wrong, abs., Od.21.155, A.Ag.1194, etc.: c. gen., “οὔ τι νοήματος ἤμβροτεν ἐσθλοῦ” Od.7.292; μύθων ἡμάρτανε failed of good speech, 11.511; γνώμης, ἐλπίδων, βουλήσεως ἁ., Hdt.1.207, E.Med.498, Th. 1.33,92; ἁ. τοῦ χρησμοῦ mistake it, Hdt.1.71: c. acc., “ἁ. τὸ ἀληθές” Hdt.7.139 (codd., τἀληθέος Schäfer).
3. fail of having, be deprived of, mostly c. gen., χειρῶν ἐξ Ὀδυσῆος ἁμαρτήσεσθαι ὀπωπῆς that I should lose my sight by Ulysses' hands, Od.9.512; “τοῦ ῥυσίου θ᾽ ἥμαρτε” A.Ag.535; “ἁ. πιστῆς ἀλόχου” E.Alc.879, cf. 144:—once with neut. Adj., οὐ γὰρ εἰκὸς . . ἐμὲ ὑμῶν ἁμαρτεῖν τοῦτό γ᾽ 'tis not seemly that I should ask this of you in vain, S.Ph.231:—rare in Prose, “ἡμάρτομεν τῆς Βοιωτίης” Hdt.9.7.β́, cf. Th.7.50; δυοῖν κακοῖν οὐκ ἦν ἁμαρτεῖν (i.e. either one or the other) And.1.20, cf. S.El. 1320:—so μηδὲ δυοῖν φθάσαι ἁμάρτωσιν, ἢ . . ἢ . . fail to be before-hand in one of two things, Th.1.33.
II. abs., do wrong, err, sin, Il.9.501, Semon.7.111, A.Pr.262, S.El.1207, etc.; “ἄκοντες ἡμαρτάνομεν” Pl.R.336e, cf. 340e, etc.:—c. part., “ἥμαρτε χρηστὰ μωμένη” S.Tr.1136; “πρόθυμος ὢν ἥμαρτες” E.Or.1630, cf. Antipho 2.2.1: c. dat. rei, “ἁ. ῥήματι” Pl.Grg.489b; “ἐν λόγοις” Id.R.396a; “τοιαῦθ᾽ ἁμαρτάνουσιν ἐν λόγοις ἔπη” S.Aj.1096:—with cognate acc., “ἁμαρτίαν ἁ.” S.Ph.1249, E.Hipp.320: with neut. Adj. or Pron., αὐτὸς ἐγὼ τόδε γ᾽ ἤμβροτον I erred in this, Od.22.154; “πόλλ᾽ ἁμαρτών” A. Supp.915; “ἀνθρώπινα” X.Cyr.3.1.40: in Prose more freq. ἁ. περί τινος or τι do wrong in a matter, Pl.Lg.891e, Phdr.242e; “ἐπί τινι” Antipho 5.91 (codd.); ἁ. εἴς τινα sin against . . , Hdt. 1.138, S.OC968; ἐπὶ τὴν ἔλλειψιν, ἐπὶ τὸ πλεῖον, Arist.EN1126b1, 1118b16; “περί τινα” Antipho 3.2.7; “τινί” LXX Jd.10.10.
2. Pass., “ἡμαρτήθη ὁ ἐς Σικελίαν πλοῦς” Th.2.65, etc.: in pf. part., τἀμὰ δ᾽ ἡμαρτημένα my plans are frustrate, S.OT621; “τῶν περὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα ἐς τὰ θεῖα ἁμαρτανομένων” Pl.Lg.759c; “ἀπειρίἁ αὐτὸ μᾶλλον ἢ ἀδικία ἡμαρτῆσθαι” Antipho 5.5:—τὰ ἡμαρτημένα, τὰ ἁμαρτηθέντα, S.OC 439, 1269, X.An. 5.8.20.
3. ἁμαρτανόμενος, as Adj., wrong, mistaken, Pl.Phlb. 37d, al.; “αἱ ἡμαρτημέναι πολιτεῖαι” Id.R.449a, Arist.Pol.1275b1, 1301a36; and of persons, “ἡμαρτημένοι” mistaken, Id.EN1125a19.