Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon

A.“δίζηαι” Od.11.100: 3pl. “δίζηνται” B.1.67, once in Trag., A.Supp.821 (lyr.); part. “διζήμενος” Od.16.391, al., Hdt.7.142, al.: impf. “ἐδίζητο” Id.3.41, Phoen.1.4: fut. “διζήσομαι” Od.16.239, Lyc.682; 2sg. “διζήσεαι” Parm. 8.6: aor. “ἐδιζησάμην” Heraclit.101. (Ep., Ion., Lyr., = Att. ζητέω (which occurs only once in Hom.); cf. “δίζω” 11):—seek out, look for among many, “Πάνδαρον . . διζημένη εἴ που ἐφεύροι” Il.4.88, cf. 5.168, Anacr.4; “ἐδιζησάμην ἐμεωυτόν” Heraclit. l. c.

II. seek for, “ἢ καὶ διζησόμεθ᾽ ἄλλους” Od.16.239; “νόστον δίζηαι;” 11.100; νόστον ἑταίροισιν διζήμενος ἠδ᾽ ἐμοὶ αὐτῷ devising means for a return, 23.253; μνάσθω ἐέδνοισιν διζήμενος seeking to win her by gifts, 16.391; “γύην . . κατ᾽ ὄρος δ. ἢ κατ᾽ ἄρουραν” Hes.Op.428; “δ. τὸ μαντήϊον” to seek out, seek the meaning of, Hdt.7.142; ἀγγέλους δ. εἰ . . to inquire of them whether . . , Id.4.151; δ. ἐπ᾽ ᾧ ἂν . . Id.3.41; ὅτινι . . Theoc.16.68<*> abs., Democr.108.

III. c. inf., seek, desire to do, “πλέον δ. ἔχειν” Hdt.2.147, cf.A.l.c., B.l.c., and later Ep., Tryph.525, etc.: c. acc. et inf., demand, require that . . , “σὲ δ. εἴκοσι εἶναι ἀντάξιον” Hdt.7.103. (Perh. redupl. fr. root of ζητέω.）